Clockspeed : winning industry control in the age of temporary advantage / Charles H. Fine.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Little, Brown, 1999.Description: xv, 272p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780316855877 (pbk.) :
- 9780316855877
- 658.4062 FIN
- HD58.8
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 658.4062 FIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 204920 |
Originally published: Reading, Mass.: Perseus, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I.The genetics of business -- 1.Evolution or extincition -- 2.What fruit flies teach us about business -- 3.The survival of the fittest -- 4.The secret of life -- II.Supply chain design -- 5.The primacy of chains -- 6.Laws of nature -- 7.DNA mapping -- III.Executing strategy in the age of temporary advantage -- 8.Cloning in three dimensions -- 9.Enriching the gene pool -- 10.Molecular manipulation -- 11.Genetic engineering in a fast-clockspeed world -- 12.Back to the fruit flies -- Epilogue: When fruit flies inherit the earth.
Describing a new discipline, Clockspeed provides information about the way to succeed in business today. Fine shows how the discipline of genetics can harness the power of clockspeed - a company's actual rate of evolution - to predict the future.