Garelli Top Class Competitors

How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-03280-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Three decades ago competitiveness was unheard-of; today it hastaken the world by storm. But what is it? And will it last? InTop Class Competitors Stéphane Garelli - professor atIMD business school where he is also head of the WorldCompetitiveness Centre, professor at the University of Lausanne,and former managing director of the World Economic Forum - definescompetitiveness as the ability of a nation, company or individualto manage a set of disparate competencies to achieve prosperity.For instance, along with traditional policies a nation must tackleeducation and security to sustain economic development. Companiesmust manage soft issues such as brands to beat the competition. Andindividuals must reinvent themselves to survive. These fields ofresearch did not exist until recently - now, competitiveness makesthe link.
Top Class Competitors is a journey through the brave newworld of competitiveness. What are its historical origins? How doesit impact the management of a nation? How do companies thrive on itin an international environment? What is the impact on workstructures and value systems? Above all, is there acompetitiveness mindset? Exploring how competitiveness works,Stéphane Garelli shows why competitiveness is the mostpowerful tool available to unleash new levels of prosperity fornations, profit for companies and success for people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garelli, Stephane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix
Credits xi
Prologue xiii
1 Competitiveness: Changing the Mindset 1
2 The Long and Winding Road to Competitiveness 31
3 Working out National Competitiveness: The Cube Theory 61
4 The Extended Enterprise 117
5 Competitiveness and Work: A Love-Hate Relationship153
6 Competitiveness and Value Systems 181
7 Competent People and Competitive People: They Are Not The Same. . . 217
Epilogue: A Beautiful, Competitive Mind 251
References 259
Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Stéphane Garelli is a world authority on competitiveness, having pioneered work in the field for 25 years. He is a professor at the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he heads the World Competitiveness Centre, and also an associate professor at the University of Lausanne where he teaches competitiveness of enterprises and nations. He was Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and director of its well-known Davos Annual Meetings for many years. Besides his academic career he has worked closely with several large global enterprises, in particular as a special advisor to Hewlett-Packard in Europe. He is also closely involved with public management and politics, having been an elected member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state in Switzerland. He is a member of numerous international institutions and boards, regularly speaks at major conferences on competitiveness, and is chairman of the Swiss newspaper Le Temps.