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Books : Clockspeed : Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary AdvantageIn association with Amazon.comby: Charles H. Fine  List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $13.14 You Save: $4.86 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 658.7 EAN: 9780738201535 ISBN: 0738201537 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 01, 1999 Publisher: Basic Books Studio: Basic Books Sales Rank: 60939 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Based on groundbreaking research at MIT, Clockspeed introduces a revolutionary approach to business strategy, applying the principles of genetics to show how choices in supply-chain design can drive company and industry evolution. "Faster is not necessarily smarter. In this world of constant acceleration, while most firms become increasingly reactive, the race will go to the few who can think more deeply rather than react more quickly. Charlie Fine's is likely to be one of the voices they are listening to."-Peter Senge, founding Director of the MIT Organizational Learning Center and author of The Fifth Discipline Drawing from a decade of research at MIT, and using examples from the fastest-changing industries, Fine introduces a whole new vocabulary for analyzing and implementing business strategy, turning managers into "corporate geneticists" who do not react to the forces of change but master them to engineer their company's destiny. Amazon.com Review: Based on extensive research he conducted at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, professor Charles H. Fine determined that fruit flies hold the key to the future of business. Not the insects themselves, actually, but the way geneticists study their extraordinarily condensed life spans to gain insight into the much more drawn-out human existence. In like manner, Fine suggests that industries with a very rapid evolutionary rate, or clockspeed, be examined for information that will benefit businesses of all kinds--as well as national economic systems, universities, and even religious institutions--although any edge that emerges may, without additional work, prove to be fleeting. In Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage, Fine lays out his resultant theories of business genetics. He focuses on "fruit fly industries" such as personal computers and information-entertainment providers and the lessons he says can be learned by dissecting their internal processes, product development procedures, and organizational arrangements. He then proposes ways that other companies can utilize the positive patterns of industry structure that appear. Those whose eyes do not glaze over at the mere thought of calculating "capital equipment obsolesce rates" should find this absorbing and thought-provoking. --Howard Rothman Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Two books in one - one that i loved!I find the book is divided in two books: 1. analysis of supply chains, understanding an industry, and how you can draw conclusions and foresee the future, 2. how to work with supply chains; what to build or buy and how to treat your suppliers, etc. I am interested in the analysis and not supply chain so the first part of the book was pleasing. I will tell you why I liked the first part of the book: a) Fine describes how fast an industry is "updated". From the ... Read More Rating:  - A great way to fall asleepI read this book as part of an MBA curriculum and was so bored by it I almost dropped the class. If you are a supply chain freak and love this kind of stuff you might like reading over and over again about stretched biological analogies but if you are focusing on any other discipline and just want a taste of competitive advantage in supply chain I recommend you look elsewhere. Rating:  - Supply Chain: design should come firstFine's book creates clear connection among Supply Chain, Product Development and Manufacturing activities. MIT's Professor Fine establishes an operational and strategic link among those company's environment. The book put in a plain text how to analyze you supply chain and how to design it accordly a strategy view. Finally, Supply Chain Design is proclaimed as being essential to assure competitive advantage and to sustain the company's progress. If you want to really understand supply chain, it is ... Read More Rating: - Seminal Work in Supply Chain DesignProfessor Fine makes a tremendously strong and lucid case for utilizing supply chain design as a functional catalyst in optimizing business strategy and evolution. In a world of chronic oversupply and fear, Professor Fine sheds light on how managers and corporations can take control of their destiny instead of destiny and fate taking control of the managers and corporations. Rating: - Crucial for anyone in supply chain fieldIt would be a mistake to be employed in some supply chain capacity and *not* read this book. I believe that it offers an intriguing set of solid examples of how incorporating supply chain management into strategy discussions has helped some companies profit at the expense of others. Some commenters have noted that examples seem anecdotal. I tend to think that Fine's approach here, in going into depth with just a few examples, is a richer basis upon which to draw conclusions. You don't ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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