Creating Value in the Network Economy (Hardcover)

by Don Tapscott (Editor) "The next wave of economic growth is going to come from knowledge-based businesses..." (more)
Key Phrases: cookie software, physical value chain, real virtual factory, World Wide Web, Federal Express, America Online (more...)

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Amazon.com Review
Most corporate leaders recognize that today's increasingly wired world is dramatically changing the way they conduct business. Only a precious few grasp exactly what this means to their own operations, however, and fewer still have implemented appropriate strategies that put them ahead of the curve.

Creating Value in the Network Economy is a collection of 12 essays that originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review and that address this continuing revolution and its potential long-term impacts. Edited by Don Tapscott--whose previous, well-received books include The Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital--it assembles a series of provocative and pragmatic thoughts on the subject by such visionaries as John Hagel, Stan Davis, James Moore, and Charles Handy. Divided into three sections, the resultant works address fundamentals as they relate to the shifting nature of corporate value, the evolution of the corporation itself, and the effect all this will have on tomorrow's consumer. "Questions still outnumber answers," Tapscott cautions. "But the evidence is growing. Firms that don't reinvent their business models around the Net will be bypassed and fail." --Howard Rothman

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This is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles on the fundamentals of creating value and profit from the new knowledge-based economy. The articles, by authors such as Stan Davis, John Hagel, Charles Handy, and Regis McKenna, are grouped into three sections, the first dealing with how the Net enables values to be created in radically different ways. The second group of articles describes the new models of the integrated corporation of the industrial economy, and the third describes how knowledge of marketing is changing as new interactive relationships with customers become possible. The jury is still out on what the future will hold for the network economy, yet the editor, Tapscott, indicates that the signs are already visible that firms that do not reorganize their business activities around the Net will lose ground and fail. He says in his introduction, "In the year 2020 we are likely to look back and see that companies fell into the categories of those that 'got it' and those that didn't." Mary Whaley

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 229 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875849113
• ISBN-13: 978-0875849119
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #603,875 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Guide - For Today and Tomorrow, November 1, 1999

By A Customer

This collection of articles provides an excellent overview of the key changes occuring in the network economy.

Tapscott's introduction alone is worth the price of the book, as he succinctly and insightfully overviews and integrates the primary issues affecting today's businesses in the new economy.

The selected articles explore critical issues, including the changes in what consumers value and the implications for new and existing busineses; the disaggreagtion of firms and the creation of digital networks; and the shift in power from suppliers to buyers and the imperatives for businesses if they are to gain buyers' long-term trust and loyalty.

Some of the articles may be "old" as measured by publication date, but the concepts contained in them certainly are not. This book is definitely worth reading if you're trying to build a lasting corporation in the network economy.

(on the other hand, for those looking to just get rick quick, there's always "Daytrading Success Secrets")

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed that articles are ancient history, July 3, 1999

By	David E. Hess (Harrisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I usually enjoy Dan Tapscott's books, but this one disappointed me because only 2 of the 12 articles in the book were written in 1998. The remainder date back to as early as 1993-- ancient history in the Internet world.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too little new insight.., August 1, 1999

By A Customer

Most of the articles are too old. There have been so many new developments in the past few ..months.... couple years may be--while many articles were written before 1998!