Competing in the Third Wave

by Tony Hope and Jeremy Hope

What should managers really be doing these days? This title presents the ten issues facing managers of thirdwave organizations. It discusses the critical success factors: strategy, customer value,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875848079
• ISBN13: 9780875848075
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Book With Real Management Substance

One of the better books with thoughts on strategies and management concepts sustainable in the age of technological innovation and globalization. Certainly more substance than some of the .com and other e-commerce/customer-centric titles, with application across industries.

A book one returns to

This book focus on one issue, how to stay alive and prosper in the new network based competitive environment. The authors look at this issue from ten different perspectives, and contrary to many other "overwiev" books, they come to a coherent conclusion from all standpoints.This book doesn't have all the answers (nobody does), but it does a very good jobb of explaining why some old truths ain't true anymore and it does point out the general directions where you should look for the new truths for the new era./Rasmus Larsson, Internet Business Strategist at W O G N U M

This book is a must read!

Highly recommended for individuals that wish to be current on management principles of the information age. Very readable, and informative.

Must read for accounting students and professors

Draws into focus the dynamic marketplace of the information age, and critical changes in focus and strategy that must occur for a business to thrive in the new economy.Even though the authors bash the accounting profession improperly in places, they make a good case that managerial accounting must change or become irrelevant.

An excellent book for management and accg systems people

Generally speaking, this is an excellent book which brings to light the issues which face the business leaders of the information age. It does an excellent job of identifying the issues which must be addressed by firms that wish to remain competitive in the dynamic global marketplace.However, as an accounting professional, I found the book overly critical of the accounting profession, although it does at times accurately reflect the profession's lack of enthusiasm for dealing with difficult measurement issues.