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Author | : Paul R. Kleindorfer |
Publisher | : Pearson Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137011911 |
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While managers typically view business through the lens of a single firm, this book challenges readers to take a broader view of their enterprises and opportunities. Here, more than 50 leading thinkers in business and many other disciplines take on the challenge of understanding, managing, and leveraging networks.
Author | : Paul R. Kleindorfer |
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Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 1900 |
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Today's global enterprises face a profound dilemma: They cannot compete without networks to access resour.
Author | : Boaz Ganor |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015569 |
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As terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda have been transformed from hierarchical organizations to more fluid networks, countering terrorism requires an understanding of networks. These networks evolve rapidly in response to actions to thwart them, leading to an ongoing struggle of terrorist and antiterrorist networks. In this chapter, Boaz Ganor examines the evolving threat of terrorist networks and network-based responses. As he notes, “it takes a network to beat a network.” He also examines direct and indirect implications for business organizations.
Author | : Serguei Netessine |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015070 |
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As manufacturing supply chains have moved from vertically integrated factories to diffused networks, manufacturers need to manage complex, global webs of suppliers. In this chapter, Netessine examines supply networks in two industries in particular: automobiles, and aerospace and defense. He explores how different strategies and technologies have helped companies manage, organize, and capitalize on their networks of suppliers. He discusses how Japanese automakers have used partnerships to outperform their U.S. rivals, who have taken a more adversarial approach to their suppliers. He also considers how companies such as Airbus and Boeing have used technology to coordinate and integrate far-flung networks. While Netessine notes that the formal study of network-based supply chains is just emerging, he offers insights from research and practice on the growing importance of supply networks and strategies for managing them successfully.
Author | : Kevin Werbach |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015542 |
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Telecommunications is a networked business, yet it traditionally has resisted a network-based view in its strategies and business models. In this chapter, Kevin Werbach explores this paradox, contrasting the worldview of Monists such as AT&T, who see the infrastructure as inseparable from the network, and Dualists such as Google, who see the network and its applications as distinct from the underlying infrastructure. Not surprisingly, AT&T is a proponent of “tiered access” whereas Google argues for “network neutrality.” Finally, Werbach examines how a more modular future might bridge the gap between those who seek to own and capitalize on the network and those who seek to expand it through more neutral offerings.
Author | : Steven O. Kimbrough |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015372 |
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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers computational methodologies for modeling systems, which can be valuable in understanding networks. In this chapter, the author examines several types of applications of these methods in exploring how the behavior of individual agents leads to outcomes across networks. For example, he considers how one system, based on a Prisoner’s Dilemma that provides a higher payoff for players who don’t cooperate, can result in a surprising outcome in which cooperation dominates after many rounds of play. He also considers agent-based models--including turtles in a pond, showing discrimination effects; and sugar and spice trading, showing interactions through trading. Finally, he explores applications to ant colony optimization and swarming optimization of flocks of birds or schools of fish. He concludes that computational models offer important insights into networks, and the procedures used in modeling have a significant impact. The discussion also demonstrates that “networks matter,” affecting outcomes in sometimes unpredictable ways.
Author | : Howard Kunreuther |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015526 |
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Networks increase interdependencies, which creates challenges for managing risks. This is especially apparent in areas such as security and enterprise risk management, where the actions of a single player in an interconnected network can wreak havoc on everyone in the network. The network, in this case, is only as strong as its weakest link. There are related problems in encouraging investments for prevention and protection, because the expected payoffs from such measures by one player are affected by the actions of other players in the network. This chapter examines the challenges of interdependent security (IDS) and strategies for addressing these, including coordination with broader networks such as industry organizations and government.
Author | : Satish Nambisan |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015380 |
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Most companies realize the need to “look outside” for innovation. However, few have a clear understanding about how they can make such a shift toward network-centric innovation--an innovation strategy that is centered on external networks and communities. Managers need more than anecdotal success stories about externally focused innovation, and they need more specific guidance than the “one size fits all” prescriptions of open innovation. The authors argue that every firm needs to find its own roadmap for tapping the “Global Brain”--the creative potential of the world outside its four walls. There are many different approaches and opportunities for network-centric innovation, based on the nature of the innovation space and the nature of network governance. In this chapter, the authors present a framework for structuring the landscape of network-centric innovation. They describe four models of network-centric innovation--Orchestra, Creative Bazaar, Jam Central, and MOD Station--and outline how companies can select, prepare for, and pursue the approach that best fits their particular business and innovation context.
Author | : Sonia Kleindorfer |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015356 |
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Biology remains the most extensive and complex information network on the planet. This chapter examines the nature of biological networks, including their inherent stability and risks to their resilience. After a general introduction exploring networks and biological systems, this chapter reviews (1) the evolution of biological networks; (2) principles that govern biological networks; and (3) measures of stability, productivity, and efficiency in biological networks. The authors use examples from food (energy) transfer in rainforests and coral reefs, as well as the creation of a biological network through colonization in Darwin’s Finches of the Galapagos Islands. Research shows that while large biological networks are inherently unstable, some are more stable than others.
Author | : C.K. Prahalad |
Publisher | : Pearson Education |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0137015305 |
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The locus of innovation is shifting from the firm to the network. In contrast to developing standalone products, innovators are drawing together networks that deliver a personalized, co-created experience to the customer. This chapter describes a model in which nodal firms link communities of customers with communities of prequalified vendors. It examines cases from cardiac pacemakers to addressing diabetes and explores the implications of this shift for product and service innovation, value creation, and new sources of competitive advantage.