Creative disruption : what you need to do to shake up your business in a digital world /

Creative disruption : what you need to do to shake up your business in a digital world /

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Author / Creator:	Waldman, Simon.
Imprint:	Harlow, Enlgand ; New York : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 230 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Creative ability in business. Electronic commerce. Success in business. Creative ability in business Electronic commerce Success in business
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13600656

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ISBN:	9780273725732 0273725734 1282983431 9781282983434 9786612983436 6612983434 0273725742 9780273725749
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	How can you survive the ferocious demands of making your business competitive in the digital world? How do you cope with market disruption & challenges? Will your company have the successes of Google & eBay or will you fade away? In this book, Simon Waldman details the lessons that you need to learn to allow your business to survive. There s been a change in the rules. Digital technologies are having a profound effect on business and industry. They ve ripped up traditional business models and have created both opportunities and challenges for businesses in the 21 st century. What are you going to do? How will you ensure your business not only survives, but thrives on the digital revolution? In Creative Disruption , Simon Waldman shows you how new businesses and new entrepreneurs have emerged, and how they ve capitalised on the new physics of business. Looking at businesses that have faced these challenges, such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kodak, IBM, HMV and the turn around of Apple, he explains why you need to have a strategy and how to make sure you have a sustained process of re-invention. This change isn t going to be quick and it isn t going to be easy. But if you want your company to survive, you have no alternative. What is creative disruption? What does it mean for the business world? How is the digital world going to change what you do? In this accessible and highly engaging book, Simon Waldman gives you the stories of what s worked, and tells the tales of those things that failed. Explaining why this big problem needs big solutions, he ll show you what your company needs to do, to survive: Transform your core business Find big adjacencies Innovate at the edges Defining the problem is helpful, but, solving it is what counts. Creative Disruption will help you do just that.
Other form:	Print version: 9786612983436
Standard no.:	9786612983436

Table of Contents:

About the author
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: OMG! the internet ate my business
2. The era of creative disruption
3. The incumbent's dilemma - and solution
4. The checklist: critical factors for successful reinvention
5. Transform the core
6. Find big adjacencies
7. Innovate at the edges
8. Putting it all together Kodak's long road back
9. Out of print: the reinvention of book publishers
Epilogue: what happens next?
Index