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Outsmart copycats with innovative interdisciplinary strategies.

If you're looking to keep your business not just afloat but sailing ahead in today's fast-paced market, "Leap" is like your navigational chart through the sea of competitors. Howard Yu doesn't just tell you to innovate; he shows you how through inspiring historical and current examples. It's especially ideal if you're intrigued by the intersection of different knowledge areas to create groundbreaking products and services. This book could be the catalyst for your next big business move.

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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

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ISBN: 9781610398817
Authors: Howard Yu
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date of Publication: 2018-06-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Economics
Related Topics: Management, Entrepreneurship
Goodreads rating: 3.63
(rated by 164 readers)

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Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat competition? In a book of narrative history and practical strategy, IMD professor of management and innovation Howard Yu shows that succeeding in today's marketplace is no longer just a matter of mastering copycat tactics, companies also need to leap across knowledge disciplines, and to reimagine how a product is made or a service is delivered. This proven tactic can protect a company from being overtaken by new (and often foreign) copycat competitors. Using riveting case studies of successful leaps and tragic falls, Yu illustrates five principles to success that span a wide range of industries, countries, and eras. Learn about how P&G in the 19th century made the leap from handcrafted soaps and candles to mass production of its signature brand Ivory, leaped into the new fields of consumer psychology and advertising, then leaped again, at the risk of cannibalizing its core product, into synthetic detergents and won with Tide in 1946. Learn about how Novartis and other pharma pioneers stayed ahead by making leaps from chemistry to microbiology to genomics in drug discovery; and how forward-thinking companies, including China's largest social media app--WeChat
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Outsmart copycats with innovative interdisciplinary strategies.

If you're looking to keep your business not just afloat but sailing ahead in today's fast-paced market, "Leap" is like your navigational chart through the sea of competitors. Howard Yu doesn't just tell you to innovate; he shows you how through inspiring historical and current examples. It's especially ideal if you're intrigued by the intersection of different knowledge areas to create groundbreaking products and services. This book could be the catalyst for your next big business move.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.