The New Age of Innovation : Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks

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The New Age of Innovation : Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks
by C.K. Prahalad, M.S. Krishnan
from McGraw-Hill

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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Excellent and informative
  This is a great book - it brings together a whole host of ideas into one thread which paints a realistic and insightful picture of the modern world around us. Lots of real world examples and easy to understand. Highly recommended.

• Smart authors, thoughtful book, but
  The New Age of Innovation is divided into an Introduction and eight chapters. The Introduction will tell you how the authors came to write the book and how their key ideas of N = 1 and R = G were developed.
  The Transformation of Business is the authors' description of how business is moving toward a focus on the individual customer experience and drawing resources from everywhere.
  Chapter two discusses Business Processes as the way a company can gain competitive advantage by reconfiguring... more info

• Useful analysis of the ongoing transformation of business
  Unlike many books on new economies or global changes, this work cites examples from around the world. C. K. Prahalad and M. S. Krishnan provide illustrative case studies from firms in India, Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere. They examine the various interactions among these firms and locales, grounding their theoretical discussions in reality. To add even more clarity, they also include many drawings and charts; unfortunately, these tend to force a simplistic Cartesian graphing system onto... more info

• Not good in Innovation but in ICT architecture
  I like the author's statement about the significance of the ICT architecture and business processes. I also like the way they describe ICT architecture making it clear that not all applications can come off-the-shelf. I believe that a grown ICT architecture is a major inhibitor to innovation and flexibility in the enterprise and the authors show why. If this book had a title like "The future of business processes and ICT architectures" and provided a longer list of tools and concepts for transformation I... more info

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