While global competitiveness is increasingly invoked as necessary for economic success stories, there are few answers available about how it can be achieved or maintained.
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In fast-moving markets, no organization can expect to identify and keep the best ideas by working in isolation; innovation is now running on an open model, with input from a variety of disciplines and sources, including specialists, employees, suppliers and, in particular, customers and clients.
How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies.
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Low cost competitors, who offer good enough products and services at very attractive prices, are currently significantly impacting the businesses of many leading companies, and some are starting to move up to challenge the traditional companies in their core markets.
Low cost competitors, who offer good enough products and services at very attractive prices, are currently significantly impacting the businesses of many leading companies, and some are starting to move up to challenge the traditional companies in their core markets.
How a country competes in the world is the crucial factor in determining that country's ability to benefit from international trade in today's global economy.
Michman and Mazze present five key variables that retailing executives in nine specialty businesses must understand and work with, to gain and sustain competitive advantage in their competitive environments.
A true original-the first practical guide to patents written specifically for corporate scientists, engineers, and product developersPatents and Strategic Inventing spells out exactly what a typical corporate inventor needs to know about patents and patent strategy, as well as how these topics can be used to guide the creation of new products.
Using dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by competition overdose and provide remedies that will promote sustainable growth and progress for everyone, not just wealthy shareholders and those at the top.
Words of wisdom from the late Charlie MungerWarren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathawaycollected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark, coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series.
Fraser Doherty's 48-Hour Start-Up is your handy and essential cheat sheet to starting your own business giving the key steps for developing an idea and getting it to market quickly.
During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world's rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbred racehorses.
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According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together.
A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittery world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare.
This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy.
This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy.
In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the many ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications and broadband development.