ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 149

    Title

 Only sustainable edge: why business strategy depends on procductive friction and dynamic specialization

    Author

 Hagel, John III/ Brown, John Seely

    Publisher

 Harvard Business School Press

    ISBN

 1-59139-720-0

     Summary

In this book, authors describes a dynamic new source of competitive advantage – accelerated capability building – that forces managers to discard their myopic focus on existing resources and fundamentally rethink strategy development and the nature of the firm. The authors describe the migration path companies will pursue to build sustainable edge: deepen distinctive internal capabilities; mobilize the resource of other specialized companies; and accelerate learning across broad networks of enterprises.