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Th>John Hagel, Chairman of Deloitte Center of Innovation
“Competing in a Flat World provides a fantastic glimpse into a fresh kind of organizational architecture, one built around the notion of orchestrating resources you don’t control and doing so in a manner that builds both trust and agility. This architecture may well grow to be the dominant style of the firm for the 21st century. This book is a must read for anybody who would like to compete in a set world. Every chapter details new and powerful ideas.”
—John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and coauthor of The Only Sustainable Edge
“We have been led by unstoppable economic forces to hook up our resources to create smart networks, either wired or unwired. The authors bring forward the notion of ‘network orchestration,’ an almost one-size-fits-all strategy for organizations to survive and excel in an ever-flattening world.”
—John Chen, Sybase Chairman, CEO and President
In the “flat world,” everything changes…above all, what must be done to run a winning company. Success is less about what the company can do itself and much more about what it can hook up to. Learn how it’s done, from the company that pioneered “flat world” success, Li & Fung, which produces more than $8 billion in garments and other goods for the world’s top brands and retailers—without owning a single factory.
Victor and William Fung and Jerry Wind, author of the best-selling The Power of Impossible Thinking, reveal how they’ve replaced “old-fashioned” infrastructure and huge employee bases with a fluid, ever-changing network that can design, manufacture, and deliver almost anything, anywhere. The key to success nowadays is a couple of principles for “network orchestration,” described for the first time in this book. They examine how these principles can be applied in manufacturing, services and other industries. They show how to build and orchestrate your own world-class global network.
* Compete “network vs. network”—and win!
* Generate a “big-small” company that combines scale and agility
* Forge loose-tight relationships with suppliers
* Balance control with empowerment, stability with renewal
* Manage the “bumps” in the flat world—from politics to terrorism
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