How Digital Is Your Business?

Read by 4 cassettes/ 6 hoursAdrian Slywotzky and David Morrison are back with another brilliant and practical book dealing with the big issues that keep the managers of every company awake at night: How do I keep my company from being "Amazoned," and how do I "anticipate my competitors, launch a preemptive digital strike, and completely change the landscape of my industry?"The insights in How Digital is Your Business? are penetrating and practical.  The examples of digital businesses run the gamut: from the most basic of commodities (Cemex, the leader in the cement industry) to financial services (Schwab), to the highest of high tech (Cisco).  The answer to the question "How digital is your business?" will vary with every company, but it must be answered.  Slywotzky and Morrison provide the ideas, tools, and examples everyone in business needs.

How Digital is Your Business?

Slywotzky, Adrian J.

Morrison, David J.

Literature & Fiction

Random House Audio |

Read by 6 CDs/ 6 hours Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison are back with another brilliant and practical book dealing with the big issues that keep the managers of every company awake at night: How do I keep my company from being "Amazoned," and how do I "anticipate my competitors, launch a preemptive digital strike, and completely change the landscape of my industry?" The insights in How Digital is Your Business? are penetrating and practical. The examples of digital businesses run the gamut: from the most basic of commodities (Cemex, the leader in the cement industry) to financial services (Schwab), to the highest of high tech (Cisco). The answer to the question "How digital is your business?" will vary with every company, but it must be answered. Slywotzky and Morrison provide the ideas, tools, and examples everyone in business needs.

The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well. Old-economy companies must take steps to avoid becoming victims of capitalism's creative destruction, the unofficial system that flushes out the old to make way for the new. For dot-com companies the question is whether or not they are flash-in-the-pan businesses with no long-term prospects of profitability and customer loyalty. Most of the early efforts to answer the question "How digital is your business?" have been shrouded in techno-speak: a veritable Tower of Babel unconnected with the real needs of business. Slywotzky and Morrison show, first of all, that becoming digital is not about any of the following: having a great Web site, setting up a separate e-business, having next-generation software, or wiring your workforce. What they so creatively demonstrate is that a digital business is one whose strategic options have been transformed--and significantly broadened--by the use of digital technologies. A digital business has strategic differentiation, a business model that creates and captures profits in new ways and develops powerful new value propositions for customers and talent. Above all, a digital business is one that is unique. How Digital Is Your Business? is a groundbreaking book with universal appeal for everyone in the business world. It offers: * Profiles of the future: the in-depth story of the digital pioneers--Dell Computer, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Cemex. * Insight into how to change a traditional enterprise into a digital business: the stories of GE and IBM. * An analysis of the profitable dot-coms: AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay. While How Digital Is Your Business? has great stories and case studies, its most invaluable central idea is that of digital business design and the array of powerful digital tools it offers for use in creating a digital future for your own company.

Business & Money

Weber, Karl

Management & Leadership

Crown Business

Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone? The Profit Zone provides the answers. It is an original and practical explanation of how and why high profit happens, revealing the strategies of twelve of today's great success stories--a group of companies and executives that have created over $700 billion in market value for their shareholders. More importantly, it shows the lessons that can be learned from the business design of these companies--adaptations that enabled them to always be several steps ahead of competitors in meeting customer priorities. Some examples: The profit lessons any product company can learn from Jack Welch's "sell solution, not just the box" business design at GE. How Nicholas Hayek's creation of low-end, profitable firewall brand--the Swatch--protects the rich profitability of the high-end products at his company How Roberto Goizueta's decision that the consumer was not the only important customer created the basis for Coke's triumph's over Pepsi. Why Charles Schwab's switchboard business design created a new way of doing business for millions of new customers in financial services. How managers of small and mid-size businesses such as Madden Communications and middle managers in large companies have used Slywotzky and Morrison's ideas to move their companies to the profit zone.

The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits

Andelman, Bob

The book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow? Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone? The Profit Zone provides the answers. It is a brilliant, original, and practical explanation of how and why high profit happens.

Reference

Crown

Bethlehem Steelmaker: My Ninety Years in Life's Loop

Martin, Edmund F.

Biographies & Memoirs

B M S Pr

The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well. Old-economy companies must take steps to avoid becoming victims of capitalism's creative destruction, the unofficial system that flushes out the old to make way for the new. For dot-com companies the question is whether or not they are flash-in-the-pan businesses with no long-term prospects of profitability and customer loyalty. Most of the early efforts to answer the question "How digital is your business?" have been shrouded in techno-speak: a veritable Tower of Babel unconnected with the real needs of business. Slywotzky and Morrison show, first of all, that becoming digital is not about any of the following: having a great Web site, setting up a separate e-business, having next-generation software, or wiring your workforce. What they so creatively demonstrate is that a digital business is one whose strategic options have been transformed--and significantly broadened--by the use of digital technologies. A digital business has strategic differentiation, a business model that creates and captures profits in new ways and develops powerful new value propositions for customers and talent. Above all, a digital business is one that is unique. How Digital Is Your Business? is a groundbreaking book with universal appeal for everyone in the business world. It offers: * Profiles of the future: the in-depth story of the digital pioneers--Dell Computer, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Cemex. * Insight into how to change a traditional enterprise into a digital business: the stories of GE and IBM. * An analysis of the profitable dot-coms: AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay. While How Digital Is Your Business? has great stories and case studies, its most invaluable central idea is that of digital business design and the array of powerful digital tools it offers for use in creating a digital future for your own company.

Morrison, David

Slywotsky, Adrian

Computers & Technology

Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd

La zona de beneficios/ The Profit Zone: Como el diseno estrategico del negocio le conducira a los beneficios del manana/ How Strategic Business ... Profit (Empresa/ Business) (Spanish Edition)

Economics

Paidos Iberica, Ediciones S. A.

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