Clockspeed

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Presenting an approach designed to help companies to master and manage their organizational evolution, this book argues that today's businesses have a simple choice - evolution or extinction - and that, unless they not only choose, but understand and predict their own evolution, they will die. Using a Nobel Prize-winning study of the lifecycle of fruit flies, and creating a business double-helix, the author sets out to show how the discipline of genetics harnesses the power of "clockspeed" - a company's or an industry's actual rate of evolution - to do nothing less than predict the future. Offering specific mechanisms to prepare for that future, the book crosses disciplines and draws lessons from a wide spectrum of well-known international companies and industries.

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Faster is not necessarily smarter. In this world of constant acceleration, while most firms become increasingly reactive, the race will go to the few who can think more deeply rather than react more quickly. Charlie Fine's is likely to be one of the voices they're listening to. - Peter Senge, Founding Director of the M.I.T Organisational Learning Centre and author of THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE

Charles Fine's CLOCKSPEED demonstrates compelling insight into the cyclical nature of industries, companies, products and processes. Supply chains designed to master these inevitable cycles will ultimately delight customers, reward shareholders, and domi - Stuart Smith, Vice President, Materials Management, Dell Computer Corporation

An ambitious and important book. CLOCKSPEED provides practical and visionary insights into how choices concerning product design, process technology, and supply chains can shape the evolutionary path of companies and industries. - Morris A. Cohen, Professor, The Wharton School, and Co-Director Fishman-Davidson Centre for Service and Operations Management

In this rapidly changing environment of technology mumbo-jumbo, it is refreshing to come across as powerful a metaphor as the industrial ''fruit-fly.'' Charlie Fine masterly applies the principles of genetics and heredity to teach us the dynamics of compan - Gene Meieran, Intel Fellow (chief technology offi

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Charles Fine has based this book on more than five years' research at MIT. A widely recognised expert in business strategy and organisational design, Fine regularly addresses and consults executive management of the world's leading companies such as Boeing and Lucent Technologies.