MICHAEL E. RAYNOR

Este libro examina las principales causas de los triunfos y los errores de los mercados actuales rápidamente cambiantes, guía a los lectores a través del proceso hasta ahora arcano de encontrar nuevos mercados para las tecnologias rompedoras y ayuda a los directivos a predecir en la cadena de valores de donde vendran sus futuros beneficios. Con estas variables definidas, los cambios inteligentes llegan a adivinarse y a formar parte del siguiente paso logico.Este libro es una herramienta indispensable para quien busca darle sentido a la cadena de eventos aparentemente casuales mas alla de los cambios con mayor exito del mundo.

A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and dont even realize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices with far-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices on assumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is this collision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THE STRATEGY PARADOX.This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff. Because managers feel they must base their strategies on assumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of them hope their guesses will be right or that they can somehow adapt to the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number of lucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, but no less capable managers find themselves at the helms of sinking ships. Realizing this, even if only intuitively, most managers shy away from the bold commitments that success seems to demand, choosing instead timid, unremarkable strategies, sacrificing any chance at greatness for a better chance at mere survival.Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the bestselling The Innovators Solution, explains how leaders can break this tradeoff and achieve results historically reserved for the fortunate few even as they reduce the risks they must accept in the pursuit of success. In the cutthroat world of competitive strategy, this is as close as you can come to getting something for nothing.Drawing on leading-edge scholarship and extensive original research, Raynors revolutionary principle of Requisite Uncertainty yields a clutch of critical, counter-intuitive findings. Among them:-- The Board should not evaluate the CEO based on the companys performance, but instead on the firms strategic risk profile-- The CEO should not drive results, but manage uncertainty-- Business unit leaders should not focus on execution, but on making strategic choices-- Line managers should not worry about strategic risk, but devote themselves to delivering on commitmentsWith detailed case studies of success and failure at Sony, Microsoft, Vivendi Universal, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T and other major companies in industries from financial services to energy, Raynor presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize todays opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrows promise.

Un clásico del emprendimiento. Desde Steve Jobs hasta Jeff Bezos, la obra de Clay Christensen continúa guiando a los líderes y organizaciones más innovadores de la actualidad. Continuación y remate de su obra anterior, El dilema de los innovadores, este trabajo definitivo ayudara a cualquiera que intente transformar su empresa u organizacion.Clayton Christensen y Michael Raynor amplian la idea de la disrupcion y explican como las empresas pueden y deben convertirse en disruptoras, al tiempo que muestran cuan oportunas y relevantes siguen siendo estas ideas en el vertiginoso entorno empresarial actual. Christensen y Raynor identifican las fuerzas que hacen que los gerentes tomen malas decisiones, a medida que moldean nuevas ideas y postulan marcos y condiciones para que la disrupcion tenga exito. Lectura obligada para altos directivos y lideres empresariales, asi como para los miembros de sus equipos, esta obra es una pieza fundamental en cualquier biblioteca dedicada a emprendedores y creadores de negocios en todo el mundo.

Finally, an answer to the ultimate business question: How do some companies achieve exceptional performance over the long term? In every sector, theres an outlier. In the pharmaceutical industry, its Merck. In discount retail, its Family Dollar. It used to be Wrigley in candy and Maytag in appliances. Other superstars have been hidden in plain sight, like Heartland Express in trucking or Linear Technology in semiconductors. How do these exceptional companies deliver superior performance over the long run despite facing the same constraints as competitors? What are they doing differently? What can we learn from them? Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed have analyzed data on more than 25,000 companies spanning forty-five years. Their five-year study began with a sophisticated statistical analysis to identify which companies have truly exceptional performance, 344 in all. In collaboration with teams of researchers, Raynor and Ahmed then put a carefully chosen representative sample of twenty-seven companies under the microscope to uncover what made the stand-out performers different. They found that exceptional companies, when faced with difficult decisions, follow three rules: Better before cheaper. They rarely compete on price. Revenue before cost. They drive profits through price and volume, not thrift. There are no other rules. Everything else is up for grabs, and they are willing to change anything to remain true to the first two rules. The rules provide an indispensable compass that any company can use to chart its own path to greatness. Is it better to keep price down or invest in creating value that commands a higher price? Should you focus on talent and developing the abilities of your people or build processes to extend the capabilities of your organization? How about acquiring a sizable competitor to secure economies of scaleor a small start-up to gain access to new technology? According to Raynor and Ahmed, the right answers to these and just about every other question are the ones most closely aligned with the rules. The Three Rules is built on a powerful combination of large-scale data analysis and in-depth case studies. Its guidance will increase the chance that your organization can become truly exceptional.