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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.514 EAN: 9780875847559 ISBN: 0875847552 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 245 Publication Date: 1997-03 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Studio: Harvard Business School Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: John Seely Brown, director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, is the editor of this collection of "Harvard Business Reviews" articles on how innovation occurs differently in today's organizational structures, with new technological tools and new global perspectives. This collection has a broad reach, from relatively technical articles to wide-ranging pieces on strategy, which provides a unique, eclectic, and integrated perspective on innovation. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A well-chosen and valuable collectionThe value of a book of reprints mined from HBR's rich archive depends on the quality of selection by the miner. This is the best such anthology I have seen, with an excellent introduction which deserves very careful reading. To quote an early paragraph: "To do things differently, we must learn to see things differently. Seeing differently means learning to question the conceptual lenses through which we view and frame the world, our businesses, our core competencies, our competitive ... Read More Rating:  - Guilty of errors its authors accuses businesses of makingnThe collection of articles from 1991 to 1996 primarily focuses on differently seeing in manufacturing. They have missed a major discontinuity, and used the fatal strategy in a time of change - listening to the HRB customer's needs, the Hardware industries, with no prescience of E-commerce or Web as vehicles for innovation. Harvard B School, like Sears, had missed the change Rating: - Great anthology of important ideas in strategyJohn Seely Brown has done us a big favor: he weeded through the business literature, picked a few authors that really help us "see differently," found works that describe their ideas in tight little packages, and put it all in one book. JSB's own framing comments are also valuable. Selected highlights: Brian Arthur on increasing returns, Gary Hamel's Strategy as Revolution, Morris and Ferguson on the power of platforms, Brandenburger and Nalebuff on Game Theory for strategy, sections ... Read More 
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