The Death of Competition – Leadership & Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems - Hardcover

Moore, James F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471968102 ISBN 13: 9780471968108

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

Advance Praise for The Death of Competition "The Death of Competition certainly captures the essence of the change [that] we′re experiencing in the new internet ecosystem. Very prescient." –James L. Barksdale, president and CEO, Netscape

"Moore catches the fundamental shift in business thinking–and behavior–today: the economy is not a mechanism, businesses are not machines. They are coevolving, unpredictable organisms within a constantly shifting business eco–system that no one controls.... Managers of companies both great and small must figure out how to coevolve in this changing environment–to compete with what the competition is becoming, not with what it is now." –Esther Dyson, president, Dyson–EDventure Holdings, Inc.

"Unique, trustworthy counsel for leaders facing the new economy of empowered customers, global markets, and revolutionary technologies." –Robert E. Allen, CEO, AT&T.

"The ecosystems approach and the biological analyses are very useful and very rich. [Moore′s] personal style gives me a sense of sharing and presence. This is not a textbook. It is an experience." –Bo Ekman, chairman and CEO, SIFO Management Group AB

"The business world moving toward the twenty–first century needs a new language to construct its new reality.... [Moore′s] bold use of a biological metaphor ... will help many businesspeople to start acting from a much deeper understanding of their own New World." –Arie P. DeGeus. (retired) head of Strategic Planning & Scenario Development, Royal Dutch Shell

"Moore has reframed the leading–edge concepts of strategy and created an original, dynamic approach to thinking about enterprise, value creation, and the future. His images are powerful in both classroom and boardroom, inspiring students and policy makers alike to see new patterns and possibilities." –John Rosenblum. Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration Darden Graduate School of Business University of Virginia

About this title

About the Author

About the Author JAMES F. MOORE is one of the world′s foremost advisers on leadership and strategy. His Harvard Business Review article, "Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition", won the prestigious McKinsey Award for best article of 1993. He is founder and chairman of Geo–Partners Research, Inc., a strategy consulting and investment firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From the Inside Flap

Competition as we know it is dead. Business managers who don′t face this reality place their businesses at serious risk. In this major work on business strategy, James Moore boldly demonstrates that for many vibrant companies, the future is now; today′s great enterprises no longer compete for product superiority or even industry dominance. What matters now, and from now on, is total system leadership. Make no mistake – business rivalries have never been more intense. But the playing field is raised, the speed and stake multiply geometrically, and the strategic options have never been more diverse. Beyond the death of competition lies the advent of something new and better. But what is it? Grasping the complex, hidden patterns in today′s competitive terrain, James Moore envisions a future characterized by organized chaos. As the old powers wait and wonder, vast new fortunes flourish where entrepreneurs jostle to integrate technologies and cultivate utterly new markets of unimaginable richness. Inviting readers to approach their own businesses with equal boldness, James Moore introduces biological ecology as a metaphor for strategic thinking about business co–evolution and radically new co–operative/competitive relationships. Consider the striking case of IBM, Microsoft, and Intel: in some markets, deadly antagonists; in others, suppliers of vital importance to one another; in still others, contestants in separate games on entirely unrelated fields. From heavy manufacturing to health care and media, huge interconnected webs extend across product, market, and even industry boundaries to define the nature of success for every business. In The Death of Competition, James Moore provides a topographical map to competitive systems, enabling readers to position their own companies within interlocking business networks, to identify the development stage of their system, and to pursue the strategy most likely to prevail and ultimately dominate the whole.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471968102
• ISBN 13: 9780471968108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324