具体描述
The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale--along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow. Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future. In Own the Future , The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap. Drawing on the firm's experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, this book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization's path to future leadership. The articles are organized along ten attributes critical to success in the current environment--adaptive, global, connected, sustainable, customer-first, fit to win, value-driven, trusted, bold, and inspiring. The future may be unknowable, but The Boston Consulting Group offers insights from its 50 years of practice on how readers can position their organization to win--to change the game and to own the future.
作者简介
目录信息
Introduction p. 1
I Adaptive p. 7
1 Why Strategy Needs a Strategy Martin Reeves and Michael Deimler and Claire Love and Philipp Tillmanns p. 11
2 Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage Martin Reeves and Michael Deimler p. 19
3 Systems Advantage Martin Reeves and Alex Bernhardt p. 27
4 Adaptive Leadership Roselinde Torres and Martin Reeves and Claire Love p. 33
5 Competing on Capabilities George Stalk and Philip Evans and Lawrence E. Shulman p. 41
II Global p. 53
6 Globality: The World beyond Globalization Harold L. Sirkin and Jim Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya p. 55
7 The New Global Challengers Marcos Aguiar and Arindam K. Bhattacharya and Thomas Bradtke and David C. Michael and Tenbite Ermias and Whitney Haring-Smith and David Lee and Michael Meyer and Andrew Tratz and Masao Ukon and Bernd Waltermann p. 61
8 Winning in Emerging-Market Cities David Jin and David C. Michael and Paul Foo and José Guevara and Ignacio Peña and Andrew Tratz and Sharad Verma p. 67
9 What the West Doesn't Get about China George Stalk and David C. Michael p. 75
10 The African Challengers Lionel Aré and Sami Chabenne and Patrick Dupoux and Lisa Ivers and David C. Michael and Yves Morieux p. 81
III Connected p. 89
11 The Digital Manifesto David Dean and Sebastian DiGrande and Dominic Field and Paul Zwillenberg p. 91
12 Data to Die For Simon Kennedy and David Matheson p. 99
13 The Collision of Power and Portability Philip Evans p. 105
14 China's Digital Generations 3.0: The; Online Empire David C. Michael and Christoph Nettesheim and Yvonne Zhou p. 111
IV Sustainable p. 117
15 The Benefits of Sustainability-Driven Innovation David Kiron and Nina Kruschwitz and Martin Reeves and Knut Haanaes and Eugene Goh p. 119
16 Creating Practical Consumer Value from Sustainability Knut Haanaes and Catherine Roche and Jonathan Sharp and Marty Smits p. 125
17 Potential Impacts of the New Sustainability Champions David C. Michael and Kim Wagner and Knut Haanaes and Eugene Goh and Diederik Vismans and Jeremy Jurgens and Lyuba Nazaruk p. 131
V Customer First p. 135
18 Breaking Compromises George Stalk and David K. Pecaut and Benjamin Burnett p. 137
19 Brand-Centric Transformation: Balancing Art and Data Dylan Bolden and Antonella Mei-Pochtler and Rohan Sajdeh and Gaby Barrios and Erin George and Keith Melker and Deran Taskiran p. 143
20 Unlocking Growth in the Middle: A View from India and China Zhenya Lindgardt and Christoph Nettesheim and Ted Chan p. 151
21 Treasure Hunt Michael J. Silverstein p. 159
VI Fit to Win p. 169
22 High-Performance Organizations Vikram Bhalla and Jean-Michel Caye and Andrew Dyer and Lisa Dymond and Yves Morieux and Paul Orlander p. 171
23 Shaping Up: The Delayered Look Ron Nicol p. 179
24 Getting More from Lean: Seven Success Factors Pascal Cotte and Adam Farber and Amyn Merchant and Petros Paranikas and Harold L. Sirkin and Michael Zinser p. 183
25 The Demand-Driven Supply Chain John Budd and Claudio Knizek and Bob Tevelson p. 189
26 Pricing Fluency Sylvain Duranton and Jean-Manuel Izaret and Rich Hutchinson p. 195
27 The IT Organization of the Future Jeanne W. Ross and Stephanie L. Woerner and Stuart Scantlebury and Cynthia M. Beath p. 201
VII Value-Driven p. 207
28 The Experience Curve Reviewed Bruce Henderson p. 211
29 The Rule of Three and Four: A BCG Classic Revisited Martin Reeves and Michael Deimler and George Stalk and Filippo L. Scognamiglio Pasini p. 215
30 The CEO as Investor Gerry Hansell and Dieter Heuskel p. 221
31 Focusing Corporate Strategy on Value Creation Jeffrey Kotzen and Eric Olsen and Frank Plaschke and Daniel Stelter and Hady Farag p. 227
32 Powering Up for Postmerger Integration Jean-Michel Caye and Jeanie Daniel Duck and Daniel Friedman and Dan Jansen and Joe Manget and Alexander Roos and Peter Strüven p. 235
33 Resilience: Lessons from Family Businesses Nicolas Kachaner and George Stalk and Alain Bloch p. 243
VII Trusted p. 251
34 Social Advantage Martin Reeves and Dieter Heuskel and Thomas Lewis p. 253
35 From Reciprocity to Reputation Philip Evans p. 259
36 The Return of the Politician Dieter Heuskel and Martin Reeves p. 263
37 Collaboration Rules Philip Evans and Bob Wolf p. 267
IX Bold p. 275
38 Thinking in New Boxes Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny p. 285
39 Rethinking Scenarios: What a Difference a Day Makes Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny p. 285
40 Business Model Innovation: When the Game Gets Tough, Change the Game Zhenya Lindgardt and Martin Reeves and George Stalk and Michael Deimler p. 291
41 The Deconstruction of Value Chains Carl W. Stern p. 299
42 Time-Based Management Thomas M. Hout and George Stalk p. 303
43 The New "Low Cost" Nicolas Kachaner and Zhenya Lindgardt and David C. Michael p. 307
44 The Hardball Manifesto George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer p. 315
45 Leading Transformation Andrew Dyer and Grant Freeland and Steve Gunby and Cynthia Blendu p. 319
X Inspiring p. 325
46 Jazz .vs. Symphony John S. Clarkeson p. 327
47 Probing Jonathan L. Isaacs p. 331
48 Smart Simplicity Yves Morieux p. 335
49 Strategic Optimism: How to Shape the Future in Times of Crisis Hans-Paul Bürkner p. 343
50 Lessons from My Three Decades with the Change Monster Jeanie Daniel Duck p. 349
Contributors p. 355
Index
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读后感
要把公司策略分析套用到这个框架里面很难，只能给内部人参考一下。介绍four broad strategic styles: Classical, adaptive, shaping and visionary.但是有些原则还是普适的，例如持续的商业模式的创新是利润持续的源泉，等等。
要把公司策略分析套用到这个框架里面很难，只能给内部人参考一下。介绍four broad strategic styles: Classical, adaptive, shaping and visionary.但是有些原则还是普适的，例如持续的商业模式的创新是利润持续的源泉，等等。
要把公司策略分析套用到这个框架里面很难，只能给内部人参考一下。介绍four broad strategic styles: Classical, adaptive, shaping and visionary.但是有些原则还是普适的，例如持续的商业模式的创新是利润持续的源泉，等等。
要把公司策略分析套用到这个框架里面很难，只能给内部人参考一下。介绍four broad strategic styles: Classical, adaptive, shaping and visionary.但是有些原则还是普适的，例如持续的商业模式的创新是利润持续的源泉，等等。
要把公司策略分析套用到这个框架里面很难，只能给内部人参考一下。介绍four broad strategic styles: Classical, adaptive, shaping and visionary.但是有些原则还是普适的，例如持续的商业模式的创新是利润持续的源泉，等等。
用户评价
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作为一名非专业人士，我原以为这类探讨会让我感到高不可攀，但这本书完全颠覆了我的预设。作者似乎深知读者的认知跳跃点在哪里，总能在我开始感到困惑时，及时抛出一个恰到好处的引言或者一个引人深思的小故事来重新锚定我的注意力。它真正做到了将高屋建瓴的洞察与脚踏实地的关怀结合起来。书中对未来社会公平性问题的关注，让我印象尤其深刻，作者没有沉迷于技术的华丽外表，而是敏锐地捕捉到了技术进步可能带来的阶层固化风险，并提出了令人耳目一新的应对策略。这不仅仅是一本关于“技术如何发展”的书，更是一本关于“我们如何确保技术为人服务”的指南。它让我以一种更具人文关怀的视角去审视科技进步的意义，是那种读完后会让你忍不住向身边每一个人推荐的典范之作。
读完这本著作，我最大的感受是作者的叙事功力炉火纯青。整本书的节奏把握得极其精准，时而如疾风骤雨般揭示迫在眉睫的危机与挑战，时而又像潺潺溪流般娓娓道来那些触动人心的个人故事。那些穿插在宏大叙事中的微观视角，有效地中和了未来学题材常常显得空泛和高冷的弊病。我感觉自己不是在读一本理论书籍，而是在跟随一群鲜活的人物，共同经历一场跨越时代的变革。书中对于伦理困境的处理尤其到位，面对科技带来的巨大便利，作者毫不回避地指出了其背后的阴影面，那种审慎和克制，体现了一位真正有责任感的思想家的风范。特别是关于数据隐私和个体自由的章节，观点犀利，论证严密，让人读后对我们习以为常的数字生活产生了一种全新的敬畏感和警惕心。
这本书的结构编排显示了作者极高的学术素养和对信息架构的深刻理解。它不是简单地按时间线索推进，而是构建了一个多维度的分析框架，将经济、政治、文化和社会学等多个维度交织在一起，展现了一幅未来全景图。我注意到，作者在提出观点时，总能提供来自不同学科领域的交叉论证，这使得全书的论点具有极其强大的支撑力和说服力。特别是它对于全球化进程在未来科技驱动下可能出现的“反向重塑”，其分析路径之精妙，远超我此前阅读过的任何同类作品。阅读过程中，我时不时会停下来，回顾前文的论述，发现每一个章节的铺垫都是为了后文更宏大的论断服务，整体逻辑链条紧密到令人叹服。这绝对是一部需要细细品味、反复研读的深度思考之作，而非速食读物。
