Dr. Amit S. Mukherjee leads Ishan Advisors, an executive education and strategy consulting company. He has been a faculty member at a top business school, the founder of consulting practices at two well-known firms, and an executive officer of a small public company.

Mukherjee and his family live in Watertown, Massachusetts. He enjoys hiking, cooking, traveling, and reading. He still gets wistful about the days when he had time to enjoy cricket.

For more information about Mukherjee, please visit www.ishanadvisors.com.

Praise for The Spider's Strategy

"-Beyond the obvious, this is a great and pragmatic book, demonstrating the incredible power of Collaboration in action."

—Jean-Francois Baril Senior Vice President, Nokia Corporation

"-Though many have sought to unlock the secrets of creating learning organizations, few have succeeded. In The Spider's Strategy, Mukherjee provides the keys to the learning kingdom.... And he shows what it really takes to leverage the power of networks. It is that rare business book that deserves to be read from cover-to-cover."

—Michael Watkins, Author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

"-Mukherjee beautifully weaves the ever-morphing web of technology, business, and organizational learning together and explains why both top executives and middle managers must care about their impact."

—Sudipta Bhattacharya President, Invensys Wonderware

"-About the time of the Nokia incident, the Toyota Group faced a similar situation in Japan and its actions were a good example of best practice—but in a setting of a local network, strong ties, and integral business architecture. I was not sure if a switch from a transactional mode to a knowledge sharing mode could happen in a global network with weaker ties and a modular business architecture. The Spider's Strategy convinced me that it is certainly possible—by building sense-and-respond capabilities, collaboration with network partners, organizational learning, and responsive information technologies."

—Takahiro Fujimoto Professor, The University of Tokyo, Author, The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota, and Co-author (with Kim Clark), Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry

"-Mukherjee captures very well the essential value that programs like PRM, Buy-Sell, and the internal knowledge management capabilities bring to HP every day."

—Greg Shoemaker Vice President,Hewlett-Packard Company

"-Once in a while I receive a book that makes me think 'Why did I not write this?' But of course, I could not. It takes a very experienced reflective practitioner, who in his heart is still an academic, to write such a wonderful book. I had the privilege to work with Mukherjee as a colleague at INSEAD almost 20 years ago.... I am truly pleased Mukherjee's ideas have finally found a place in a book."

—Luk N. Van Wassenhove Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing and Academic Director of the Social Innovation Center INSEAD

"-An 'adaptive organization' must count as the response in the increasingly connected world in which business will operate in the decades ahead.... Mukherjee makes a terrific case of how to achieve the desired response. A great read for the 'concerned' before they reach the stage of being 'tormented.'"

—R. Gopalakrishnan Executive Director, TATA Sons Limited

"-In The Spider's Strategy, Mukherjee...demonstrates how corporations that cultivate...strategic webs can thrive even in the face of...business challenges that undermine their competition. This book is a must read for executives who are willing to look outside their own corporate walls to create significant competitive advantage."

—Pat Bentley Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

"-The business world is moving toward non-hierarchical networks.... The answer to these changes is a combination of network management and collaborative leadership. Mukherjee...goes beyond description of best practices. The four design principles that he has developed to implement networks are conceptually well thought through and actionable. This book deserves to be read by anybody who is interested in tomorrow's organization."

—Arnoud De Meyer Director, Judge Business School, Cambridge University

"-Mukherjee has written a very thoughtful and thought provoking book.... The adaptive network perspective with its four Design Principles and the accompanying five Capabilities inspired by a Chief Network Officer will be the organizations of the present and future.... The book presents good theory, research grounded in facts, and a clear picture of what is both necessary and possible, going forward."

—Alexander B. Horniman Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration and Senior Fellow Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

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