Competing in the Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age - Hardcover

Hope, Jeremy; Hope, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875848079 ISBN 13: 9780875848075

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1997

Synopsis

Presents comprehensive guidelines for managers going head-to-head with today's advanced competitors

About this title

About the Author

Jeremy Hope is a management consultant and speaker. Tony Hope is an international consultant, lecturer, and speaker as well as a visiting professor of accounting at INSEAD, France, and Bradford Management Center. Together, they wrote Transforming the Bottom Line (HBS Press).

From the Back Cover

Competing in the Third Wave demonstrates how technology, globalization, and deregulation are the drivers of the new knowledge-based organization. Hope and Hope do an excellent job in surveying, synthesizing, and integrating new and classic management literature into the future organization. --Robert P. McNutt, Human Resources, DuPont Company

For several years, Tony and Jeremy Hope's ideas have provided the inspiration that has led us to manage our business differently--and the impact on the bottom line has been dramatic. Competing in the Third Wave extends those ideas even further and is essential reading for anyone who sees the business environment changing and needs to sharpen their skills accordingly. --Bill Russell, Vice-President and General Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

Competing in the Third Wave is quite the most absorbing management book I have seen in some time. The name Hope has been synonymous with wit, style, and timing. In this informative and thought-provoking book, these qualities are alive and well in the most esoteric world of managing in the third wave. With their ten key issues, the Hopes are taking us down the Road to Successful Competition.' --Stuart Hetherington, Training & Development Manager, National Power PLC

Jeremy and Tony Hope have challenged themselves by giving managers a framework to combine the most important dimensions of management in the future: customer orientation, knowledge, financial performance, and leadership. Combining world-class concepts with insightful ways of application, Hope and Hope offer a very valuable compass for mastering the future of management. --Dr. Reinhold Rapp, Head of Management and Organizational Development, Lufthansa German Airlines

"Many managers will be uncomfortable with the issues that Hope and Hope raise, but Competing in the Third Wave is an excellent compilation of the winning strategies required in the twenty-first century. Those who succeeded in the past should read it in order to retool for the future--for they are the most vulnerable!" --Bill Baker, Texas Instruments, Benchmarking/Best Practices Champion

How do you win or maintain leadership in an era of instantly accessible global information? Competing in the Third Wave moves beyond commentary and synthesis of available material to provide a contemporary and practical agenda. Measurement is a central tenet. Hope and Hope propose crucially credible alternative measures, providing a fresh paradigm for those engaging the new reality--organizing around customers' processes and people. --Keith Dennis, Director of Personnel, Cadbury Ltd

This book is essential reading for those leading change within the third wave economy in what is currently the most exciting service industry--telecommunications. Hope and Hope's walk-through of the ten key management issues presents a useful test of your business' strategies and plans. --Phil Waring, Manager, Build the Internal Market Financial Infrastructure, BT plc

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875848079
• ISBN 13: 9780875848075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253