Jumping the Curve: Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition

In today′s competitive marketplace, all organizations are faced with the same challenge?to make significant, discontinuous leaps in thinking about their products, technologies and management styles. In Jumping the Curve, internationally respected management consultants Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari identify four strategic imperatives?innovation, intelligence, coherence, and responsibility?that will enable companies to succeed and thrive in this emerging era. Drawing on interviews, research, and firsthand observation, they connect the big picture of our changing civilization by outlining the specific actions that today′s successful managers are taking to produce results.

Spis treści:
Part One: Straddling Two Worlds: The Familiar and the Unknown.
1. We′ve Been Here Before: Historic Parallels to Our Tumultuous Age.
2. Turning Point: The World Has Never Been So Awake.
3. Rising to the Occasion: New Roles for New Times.
Part Two: Making the Leap: Strategic Choices for the Emerging Epoch.
4. The Innovation Imperative.
5. Practicing Creative Destruction.
6. The Intelligence Imperative.
7. Growing the Smart Organization.
8. The Coherence Imperative.
9. Linking Success to Values and Ideals.
10. The Responsibility Imperative.
11. Guaranteeing That the Customer Is Final Arbiter.
Epilogue: Choosing Our Destiny.

Nota biograficzna:
NICHOLAS IMPARATO is professor at the McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco. A prominent speaker and consultant to organizations worldwide, he has served as a director on the boards of several public and privately–held companies. OREN HARARI is senior consultant with the Tom Peters Group and professor at the McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco. An internationally renowned speaker and consultant, he is a regular contributor to Management Review.

Okładka tylna:
In today′s competitive marketplace, all organizations are faced with the same challenge?to make significant, discontinuous leaps in thinking about their products, technologies and management styles. In Jumping the Curve, internationally respected management consultants Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari identify four strategic imperatives?innovation, intelligence, coherence, and responsibility?that will enable companies to succeed and thrive in this emerging era. Drawing on interviews, research, and firsthand observation, they connect the big picture of our changing civilization by outlining the specific actions that today′s successful managers are taking to produce results.