Reviews for Pro/con

The average rating for Pro/con based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-28 00:00:00 Susan Eichner The strongest chapters are 4-6. Chapter 4 introduces the idea of various stages of a business, and what capabilities excelling at each requires. The high-level insight is that going through these phases requires emphasizing certain skill -- eg cost control and operational excellence, vs customer intimacy to customize the product. The book provides an additional level of detail over Innovator's Dilemma, looking at an organization from the inside -- through incentives of the various functions, such as sales, finance, and engineering (the focus is on tech companies). Chapter 6 overlays the idea of company's overall culture and subcultures of various departments -- specifically, do they focus on objective vs subjective metrics, and on teams vs individuals. It almost feels like an additional book, and it's an extremely useful framework, helping to explain fit between culture and the kinds of challenges a company excels at and struggles. For instance, it helped me figure out how Apple excels by mostly focusing on the idea and tornado phases, with its mix of subjective-individual and control cultures. Intel, by contrast, operates in a business that is a good fit to its control culture -- its mass produced products call for less customer intimacy. The book was authored around 2000, so it suffers from the "Internet era radically changes everything, forever" and "time, not costs matter as being first to a market will permanently secure large future profits -- history shows that being dominant in a space and being first at any cost are far from being the same. Overall, I have found the book's models and observations about internal dynamics of companies and how they make tasks such as crossing the chasm and countering Innovator's Dilemma very illuminating -- and hopefully beneficial for my future investment analysis.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-01 00:00:00 John Falocco Crossing the Chasm 1991 Inside the Tornado 1995 The Gorilla Game 1998 The Innovator's Dilemma 1997 واقعا کلی زحمت کشیدم تا به این کتاب رسیدم. هر چهار کتاب بالا رو خوندم تا یکم دیدم نسبت به کسب و کار و فرایندش در سال جهش تولید بیشتر بشه