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Regardless of whether we’re talking about open or closed innovation, building open source or proprietary systems, or discussing operating under a product-centered business model, a customer-centered model, or a co-creation model, companies can’t effectively compete unless they can locate and organize the available expertise. But, expertise can be surprisingly difficult to find, even in businesses that have spent millions to attract and retain world-class experts. The problem isn’t that the company doesn’t have the expertise; it’s that no one knows who has it or how to find it. |
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Strategy in the Era |
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Over the past 250 years, the pace of change has increased at an increasingly rapid rate. Few enterprises are able to offer lifetime employment anymore; not because they don’t want to, but because they usually don’t survive long enough. |
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GETTING MORE |
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Genetic Algorithms A |
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A significant challenge in managing today’s enterprise is quickly and effectively choosing among a large number of complex options and alternatives with subtle trade-offs. Fortunately, new computer applications using genetic algorithms can do a much better job at making these choices than a person using traditional analytical techniques. |
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Most business executives have traditionally viewed business models as static constructs that work on a simple input-output method. And yet today, because of a variety of forces, from globalization to the information revolution, companies are being forced to face the fact that nothing is static anymore. All systems, including business models and strategies, are dynamic and ever-evolving. |
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