Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business - Hardcover

Hayes, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007154562X ISBN 13: 9780071545624

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

Synopsis

Plug into the nonstop global economy of billion-selling products and trillion-dollar markets

The Web 3.0 world of “pandemic economics” is a new economy that will function outside the traditional laws of commerce, free from today's impediments to business growth, and in a world where every person is connected to each other. Jump Point is the powerful guide that will help you to challenge old assumptions, rethink your business models, and take advantage of this fast-moving, unfettered, and fiercely competitive environment.

Silicon Valley guru Tom Hayes explores how the new economy will arrive at a single jump point by 2011, bringing with it virulent market trends. Only those prepared for the new marketplace dynamics will be left standing amidst unfamiliar players, shape-shifting consumers, and wealth-evaporating forces. This forward-thinking book examines

• The implications of collaborative behavior on the global market
• The human drive behind the “agency” impulse, which spawns social media communities, multiplayer online games, and crowdsourcing sites
• How to act on and react to real-time external events
• The pitfalls of “response latency,” and why too much information can kill a company
• How to create a “virion,” or marketmaking product, by tapping the power of person-to-person viral dynamics

Don't get left holding yesterday's toolkit. Rethink your business in terms of the global network, and take it from the jump point into exponential growth.

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Critical Acclaim for Jump Point

“This is the Tipping Point for geeks.”-Guy Kawasaki

“Ignore this book at your peril. Tom Hayes has seen the future of business-and it is both scary and exhilarating.”-Michael S. Malone, ABCNews.com

“Tom Hayes navigates the future with alacrity. you will learn about bemes, rumor laws, shopping gossip, astroturfing, cruft, and attention theft-all fundamental sociological aspects of the evolving internet and all its offshoots. I read Jump Point and had five new ideas for companies that entrepreneurs can pursue.”-Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

“Jump Point rewarded my attention! Tom Hayes writes with great clarity and insight about new consumers and how new media and technology are changing our daily life habits...one of the best business books I have read this year.”-Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman Emeritus, AOL

Synopsis:

This book helps readers to take the leap into a new era of viral business - and tap into a billion-plus consumer base. In "Jump Point", Silicon Valley veteran Tom Hayes crafts a visionary, exhilarating, and often startling look at our fast-approaching business future. Welcome to the world of "pandemic economics;" a nonstop global economy characterized by network nation states, billion-selling products, and trillion-dollar markets. "Jump Point" illustrates how the next economy will arrive at an inflection point just 1000 days away. Managers and organizations that survive the "jump" will find themselves in a strange new landscape of unfamiliar players and unforgiving power laws. From shape-shifting consumers, to competitive jihads, to the wealth-evaporating forces of runaway "mudflation," Hayes takes you on an eye-opening ride to the world of the jump point and beyond.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 007154562X
• ISBN 13: 9780071545624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240