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Winning the Right Game
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Winning the Right Game

How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World

MIT Press, 2021 Mehr


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Eye Opening
  • Hot Topic

Recommendation

This important work from strategy professor Ron Adner might make you rethink what you “know” about disruption. Most advice on the topic still pits start-ups against incumbents. Adner demonstrates that leaders must add ecosystem disruption to their radar. Starting with the famous but false tale of Kodak’s demise, he argues that the boundaries of industry are giving way to cross-industry ecosystems where new value architectures – which partners create and defend – matter most. These systems remain poorly understood. Adner presents tools to help you see the threats and devise ecosystem strategy.

Take-Aways

  • In the past, disruption meant upstarts using digital business models to displace incumbents.
  • When Kodak went digital, it beat classic disruption, but won the wrong game.
  • Increasingly, the disruption fight goes beyond an industry and into ecosystems.

About the Author

Ron Adner, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Dartmouth University Tuck School of Business, speaks and consults on strategy worldwide.


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