Upside The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs

Name: Upside The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs
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ISBN: 9780307351012

ISBN-10: 0307351017

ISBN-13: 9780307351012

Edition: 2007

Authors: Adrian J. Slywotzky, Karl Weber

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Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such as -How to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. -Shape and exploit risk, don't be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continuallyincrease the knowledge gap between yourself and rivals, as Coach and Tsutaya of Japan have convincingly done. -A category…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 9.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Adrian J. Slywotzky is vice president of Mercer Management Consulting, a New York-based strategy consulting firm. A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was recently selected by "Industry Week" as one of the six most influential people in management, along with Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Peter Drucker, Andy Grove, & Michael Porter.



Introduction : from risk to opportunity



Changing the odds : why 90% right often = 0 : how to improve the odds on your most important project



Why do customers surprise us? : reducing customer risk through knowing, not guessing, what they want



The fork in the road : transition risk and the secret of double-betting



Unbeatable : surviving the arrival of the unique competitor



Powerful, proud, and vulnerable : rethinking your business design to protect your brand



When nobody makes money : partnering with rivals to escape a no-profit zone



When your business stops growing : inventing new forms of demand



Treasure island : reversing risks to grow


Reversing strategic risk : the upside half-day workshop