ABB the Dancing Giant : Creating the Globally Connected Corporation

Based on exclusive interviews with the ABB top management team and privileged sessions with the CEO, this book takes you inside Europe's most admired company to discover the ABB way. It offers the five guiding lights for the connected corporation, the four types of ABB manager, the steps to creating a global knowledge machine and the master plan for the next millennium.

Inside ABB—the global company that has best achieved the promise of globalization!

• Building the globally connected corporation: the world's most important case study.
• How ABB captures global efficiencies while staying responsive to local needs.
• The unique ABB management culture: training, international experience, and more.

In the fiercely competitive global engineering industry, ABB has grown to be a world-beater—and at the same time, one of the most venerated companies in the entire world of business. ABB: The Dancing Giant takes you inside this powerhouse enterprise. Granted unprecedented access to ABB's leaders, the authors show you exactly how ABB has become the role model for the entrepreneurial, globally connected corporation of the future. ABB: The Dancing Giant combines an illuminating corporate story with the first insightful analysis of the strategies and structures that have shaped this remarkable organization. Kevin Barham and Claudia Heimer show you how ABB was born from the merger of Swedish dynamo ASEA and Swiss powerhouse BBC; how Percy Barnevik created and implemented a master plan for restructuring and growth; and how ABB executed each giant step to become a globally connected leader. Discover how ABB has broken all the rules: establishing a parent company that really adds value; capturing global efficiencies while remaining responsive to local needs, and developing a worldwide learning capacity that promotes innovation everywhere.