The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time
Author: Larry Downes
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ISBN: 0066211298
Publisher: HarperBusiness (04 June, 2002)
Sales Rank: 156,375
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 3 out of 5
Some good stuff from a consultant
Have you ever had a consultant come in start off trying to explain what he's doing and you look at him funny. The consultant then goes in and does his thing. A few months later after the consultant's changes have had time to settle, get the edges off, etc. you go 'he had some pretty good ideas' I'm glad we hired him. That's sort of how this book is. In the beginning the author starts off explaining his theory and ideas and you kind of go "ummm yeah okay". Then he starts to put it into practice and you go "okay I see using part of that and some of this would work for my business" and at the end he brings it all together and half the stuff he said in the beginning was semi-useless, but you can see why he said it, and it comes together and you say "I can see how this would improve things". Overall I give the book a StuPage C.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Fascinating
A Must Read for the business executive. I found its advice to be enormously helpful in this particularly challenging time.
Rating: 3 out of 5
How many times can we hear the same message
This book has a few good nuggets, but the rest is filled with the same consultant-speak techno-hype that has been played before. This myth of a "new economy" should have been destroyed by the dot-bomb, or by the recent accounting scandals, or by the recession. We seem to forget that it is execution that counts. When will we realize that you can't build sustainable competitive advantages through technology. You can build more efficient operations, have better means of collecting, analyzing and using information, and respond in a much more rapid way to stakeholder needs; yet technology is only as good as the fundamental execution of your business. If you want a more enlightening, practical guide on technologies that will make an immediate difference, try "Going Wireless"; if you want to concentrate on strategic "blocking and tackling" pick up "Execution". Similar Products
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