Markides / Geroski Fast Second

How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7689-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B US non-Franchise Leadership

Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financiallyrewarding than being at the cutting edge.
If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Notnecessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, saystrategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski, are farbetter suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered byothers (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creatingthese markets from scratch. In Fast Second, they explore thecharacteristics of new markets, describe the skills needed tocreate and compete in them, and show how these skills match up withdifferent types of companies. Drawing on examples of successfulfast-second firms such as Microsoft, Amazon, Canon, JVC, Heinz, andmany others, they illustrate how to determine which new marketshave the potential to be successful and how to move into thembefore the competition does, when to make a move into a new market,how to scale up a market, where to position a company in themarket, and whether to be a colonizer or a consolidator.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Markides, Constantinos C.

Geroski, Paul A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Spotting the Real Innovators.
2. Where Do Radical Innovations Come From?
3. From New Technologies to New Markets.
4. Colonists and Consolidators.
5. From Colonization to Consolidation.
6. Racing to Be Second: When to Enter New Markets.
7. The Changing Basis of Competition.
8. Creating the Markets of the Twenty-First Century.
Notes.
Further Reading.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

The Authors
Constantinos C. Markides is professor of strategic and international management and holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy, and is coeditor of Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy from Jossey-Bass.
Paul A. Geroski was until recently professor of economics at the London Business School. His research interests were innovation, competitive strategy, and competition policy. He is currently the chairman of the Competition Commission in the United Kingdom.