Competition in the 21st Century

Kirk Tyson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040277423
• Subtopic: Business History
• Index: Business

Business competition will change radically in the next century. Short-sighted companies will go out of business. Survivors will successfully transition from the so-called Information Age of this century to the Intelligence Age of the 21st Century. Ten years in the making, this book paints competition of the future based on in-depth research of worldwide business over the past 100 years. By analogy, it shows business competition in its 19th-Century childhood, 20th-Century adolescence, and 21st-Century adulthood. The book highlights new beginnings - the Intelligence Age, highly networked "MegaStrategic Business Entities," and the need for both a "Competitive Knowledge Base" and "Perpetual Strategy Process" to provide an early warning system for executives. This is must-reading for business executives, managers and everyday consumers who want to plot a successful course for the future. It is also an invaluable reference tool for educators guiding the business leaders of tomorrow.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE THE 21ST CENTURY
• CHAPTER 2: A PEEK AT THE FUTURE—INDUSTRIES WITH THE INSIDE TRACK AND THOSE THAT WILL DERAIL
• CHAPTER 3: THE NEW CENTURIONS—A BUSINESS SMORGASBORD OF SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES, LEADERS, AND BUSINESS PRACTICES OF THE FUTURE
• CHAPTER 4: TIME WARP—THE GHOSTS OF BUSINESS PAST, WHY THEY’RE STILL HAUNTING US, AND THEIR FUTURE MISSION
• CHAPTER 5: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND BUSINESS EVOLUTION—19TH CENTURY CHILDHOOD, 20th CENTURY ADOLESCENCE, AND 21st CENTURY ADULTHOOD
• CHAPTER 7: THE 20th CENTURY HALL OF FAME—THE LEADERS THAT REDEFINED BUSINESS AND CHANGED OUR LIVES
• CHAPTER 8: BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES OF THE 20th CENTURY
• CHAPTER 9: COMPETITION IN THE 21st CENTURY:—ACHIEVING SUCCESS IN THE INTELLIGENCE AGE
• CHAPTER 10: TOWARD THE 22ND CENTURY
• APPENDIX 1: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TIME LINE
• APPENDIX 2: 20th CENTURY BUSINESS AND WORLD EVENTS TIME LINE
• APPENDIX 3: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS JARGON GLOSSARY
• INDEX