Change the game

Author: Peter Lawrence
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book presents the changes taking place in the Western business world in a "panoramic" approach, exploring their origins and future impacts. As these changes are revealed through the analysis of a series of real business cases, the conclusions drawn are highly persuasive and universally applicable. The arguments of this book are based on extensive hand interviews, with interviewees primarily business executives from around the world. From a profound and insightful perspective, it analyzes the major trends and issues affecting global businesses today. · Has competition become fiercer than ever before? If so, why? · What has competition intensified brought—business practices, management transformation, or corporate strategy? · How can businesses respond to increasingly demanding customers? · How do these changes affect corporate culture and internal stability? Focusing on cases from various sectors in the public and private domains across the world, the author comprehensively examines and analyzes the advantages and overlooked blind spots of unified management. Another key proposition of this book is that businesses should establish their own comparative advantages and uniqueness. The author provides detailed analyses of cases of small businesses in the U.S. and U.K. to illustrate how to develop strengths and uniqueness in this era of transformation. The Change Game elucidates the causes and consequences of change, which outcomes should be avoided, and which goals are worth pursuing. Readers may find that some of the issues discussed in this book are precisely the answers they urgently seek.