Harness your company's incumbent advantages to win the digital disruption game
Goliath's Revenge is the practical guide for how executives and aspiring leaders of established companies can run the Silicon Valley playbook for themselves and capitalize on digital disruption. Technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things, blockchain, and immersive experiences are changing the basis of competition in every industry. New competitors are emerging while traditional ones are falling behind.
Periods of intense change provide remarkable opportunities. Goliath's Revenge delivers an insider's view of how industry leaders like General Motors, NASA, The Weather Channel, Hitachi, Mastercard, Proctor & Gamble, Penn Medicine, Discovery, and Cisco are accelerating innovation, building new skills, and disrupting themselves to come out stronger in this post-digital age. Learn how to leverage your company's scale, reach, data, and expertise to launch breakthrough offerings that fend off attackers and secure your position as a future industry leader.
Using real success cases and recommendations, this invaluable resource shows how to realign your business model, reset your talent development priorities, and retake market share lost to digital-ready competitors. Drawing from extensive experience in digital transformation, leadership development, and strategic planning, the authors show how established companies can switch from defense to offense to thrive in this new digital environment.
* Learn the six new rules that separate winners from losers in the age of digital disruption
* Prioritize your innovation investments to rebuild your competitive moat
* Employ smart cannibalization to defend your core business
* Deliver step-change customer outcomes to grow into adjacent markets
* Reframe your purpose and make talent the centerpiece of your digital innovation strategy
Goliath's Revenge is a must-read for business leaders and innovators in small, mid-sized, and large organizations trying to win the digital disruption game. This book helps you reset both your company strategy and professional development priorities for long-term success.
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TODD HEWLIN is a Managing Director at TCG Advisors, the leading growth strategy firm in Silicon Valley, and a noted expert on digitization and business model innovation. He is co-author of Consumption Economics and B4B and a frequent speaker at major industry events.
SCOTT SNYDER is a Partner at Heidrick Consulting and a recognized thought leader on digital transformation and innovation. Scott is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School, founded three start-ups, and held leadership roles at GE, Lockheed Martin, and Venture firm Safeguard.
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Praise for Goliath's Revenge
"Digitalization is causing all companies to rethink the value they deliver to customers and the skills they develop in their employees. Goliath's Revenge provides actionable best practices and detailed case examples for both."
TOSHIAKI HIGASHIHARA, CEO, Hitachi
"Goliath's Revenge succeeds where most business books fall short by delivering the practical steps needed to transform your company to its new growth model for the digital future. Definitely worth a read."
DAVE YOST, former CEO, AmerisourceBergen and Board Director for Bank of America, Marsh & McLennan, and Johnson Controls
"Digital disruption is now the norm, with the consumer in the driver seat. Goliath's Revenge can help leaders realize their digital ambitions."
JAN ZIJDERVELD, CEO, Avon
"Goliath's Revenge goes beyond the stale doom and gloom stories of digital disruption to offer incumbents a playbook to craft their own journey and the confidence to invest in it."
JULIE ASK, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester
"Will your business be disrupted? Definitely. Do the disruptors have to be a small band of hackers in a garage? Definitely not. This book is full of practical tips for big companies to get a leg up on scrappy startups."
ADAM GRANT, New York Times Bestselling Author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
"An invaluable roadmap for shaping your career with specific helpful recommendations around the new skills and experiences required to prosper in the digital age."
MEHRDAD BAGHAI, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author and Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney
"In the dizzying race toward digital transformation, companies face the daunting task of setting the right tone, vision, and path forward. Every global leader should read this with a keen eye."
SHANE TEDJARATI, President and CEO, Global High Growth Regions, Honeywell
"Digital transformation requires companies to be leaders, not spectators. Goliath's Revenge shows how large enterprises are uniquely equipped to deliver step-change digital outcomes, and to do so at scale."
MIKE LAWRIE, CEO, DXC Technology
Inhalt
Foreword ix
Chapter 1 How Much Time Do You Have? 1
Chapter 2 The Incumbent's Advantage 23
Chapter 3 Winner Takes Most 39
Chapter 4 Rule 1: Deliver Step-Change Customer Outcomes 61
Chapter 5 Rule 2: Pursue Big I and Little I Innovation 83
Chapter 6 Rule 3: Use Your Data as Currency 105
Chapter 7 Rule 4: Accelerate through Innovation Networks 127
Chapter 8 Rule 5: Value Talent over Technology 147
Chapter 9 Rule 6: Reframe Your Purpose 175
Chapter 10 Company View: Your Disruptor's Playbook 199
Chapter 11 Career View: Disrupt Yourself 227
Appendix Goliath's Revenge Rule Templates 249
About the Authors 259
Index 261