Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow

Description

A playbook for taking advantage of the next generation of information technology to pursue more nimble, flexible, and profitable competitive strategies such as outsourcing and offshoring. Timely: Offshoring and outsourcing are front page news. This book explains why companies must take advantage of these capabilities and provides a framework and technological insights for doing so. The Solution to the IT Black Hole: Offers a savvy alternative approach to so many companies' failed IT efforts that will deliver immediate tactical and cost-savings benefits while bolstering the firm's long-term competitiveness. Great Practical Complement to the Hagel/Seely Brown: while Your Next Business Strategy offers a "big picture" perspective on how offshoring and outsourcing will alter the future of companies and competition - this book can be used as a strategic and operational "playbook" that will guide executives in implementing these capabilities. New Material: Includes foreword by John Seely Brown

John Hagel has reached guru-status as a business strategist and he has extraordinary influence in technology and business circles. His insights into how technology will impact business have been right on the money, and his previous books, Net Gain (HBSP; 1997; 100,956 std); Net Worth (HBSP, 1999; 60,670 std), have sold extremely well.