Relentless Growth: How Silicon Valley Innovation Strategies Can Work in Your Business The Achilles heel of every company is creating growth through new products and services-- a herculean challenge that must be met continuously, relentlessly, year in and year out. The antidote to this deficiency, argues high-tech expert Chri
| TITLE | : | Relentless Growth: How Silicon Valley Innovation Strategies Can Work in Your Business |
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| RATING | : | 4.73 (985 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0684834464 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 224 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1997-12-01 |
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The Achilles heel of every company is creating growth through new products and services-- a herculean challenge that must be met continuously, relentlessly, year in and year out. The antidote to this deficiency, argues high-tech expert Christopher Meyer, is to establish a "growth attitude", as Silicon Valley firms do, by making a sharp distinction between the innovation process and the operating pressures managers face daily. Drawing on fifteen years as an educator, researcher, and consultant in Silicon Valley, the world's oldest, most advanced, and most successful knowledge-based economy, Meyer presents a brilliant model for balancing these challenges based upon the actual strategies of explosive Silicon Valley growth machines. At the same time, he demonstrates how the Silicon Valley approach to growth and innovation has worked in companies far beyond the Valley, such as Procter & Gambl
EDITORIAL :
From Library Journal In this overview of how Silicon Valley developed innovation strategies, Meyer (Fast Cycle Time, Free Pr., 1993) offers practical insights that can be adapted for use by service and manufacturing organizations. He assumes that change creates opportunity, that it is essential for growth, that those standing still are falling behind, that the skills required for innovation can be learned and managed, and that the underlying processes that drive change are fundamentally different from those used to manage daily operations. Therein lies the dilemma faced by many organizations that, because of their segmented alignment, do not have a defined innovation process or the cross-functional commitment, cooperation, or capacity to implement desired change. This book includes a five-element model for innovation and covers the important roles that people, organizational leadership,
REVIEW :
This is not your average career building guide. The honest care the author takes in describing the places and people of his long life is so comforting, it is a struggle to believe that one person can live the 'scenes' in his life in such peace. Mr. The language he uses to construct his sentences is like none other I have ever read. Won't buy another in this series.. However, given the huge size of this book - it's virtually an encylopaedia with over 400 pages - this is understandable. Mamet's mere name has become shorthand for so much - a style, a voice, violence, woman-hating - that it's hard to just read a book of his, and it's hard to disassociate oneself from the stereotyping of his work, even if one doesn't agree with the stereotypes. (Christians love it, Athiest don't believe it, Academics are trying not to pull their fingernails out, and for the rest - they realize that it is all
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