![]() ![]() ![]() Today, many companies are worrying about EVA (economic value added), but EVA - earning more than your cost of capital - is just the starting 2.com› Henry Mintzberg The Strategy Process Pdf ▆ ![]() And if one redefines the metric of corporate success as share of new wealth creation within some broad opportunity domain - e.g., energy, transportation, communication, computing, and so on - the innovation imperative becomes inescapable. 1 Strategy innovation is the only way for newcomers to succeed in the face of enormous resource disadvantages, and the only way for incumbents to renew their lease on success. Strategy innovation is the capacity to reconceive the existing industry model in ways that create new value for customers, wrong-foot competitors, and produce new wealth for all stakeholders. The point seems incontestable: in a discontinuous world, strategy innovation is the key to wealth creation. Of course, there are examples of incumbents like Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble that are able to continually reinvent themselves and their industry, but all too often, industry incumbents fail to challenge their own orthodoxies and succumb to unconventional rivals. In industry after industry, it is the revolutionaries - usually newcomers - who are creating the new wealth. The question today is not whether you can reengineer your processes the question is whether you can reinvent the entire industry model - as has been attempting to do in book selling, as Enron has done in the energy business, or as (TC) 2 hopes to do in the clothing industry. The deeper question is, who will profit from this sea change? Which companies will sail on the new winds of change and which will be driven onto the rocks of irrelevance? I believe that only those companies that are capable of reinventing themselves and their industry in a profound way will be around a decade hence. ![]() We’ve all read Alvin Toffler, Nicholas Negroponte, and Wired. Whether you call it the “digital” economy, the “knowledge” economy, or just the “new” economy, it seems clear that we are on the cusp of an industrial revolution as profound as that which gave birth to the modern age. Schumpeter’s gale has become a hurricane. Profound change in the competitive environment has produced a Cambrian explosion of new organizational forms, institutional relationships, and value-creating possibilities. ![]()
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