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The Connected Company [Hardcover]

Dave Gray , Thomas Vander Wal
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18 Sep 2012 144931905X 978-1449319052 1

The future of work is already here.

Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But when your company’s performance runs short of what you’ve promised, customers can seize control of your brand message, spreading their disappointment and frustration faster than you can keep up.

To keep pace with today’s connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time.

Connected companies have the advantage, because they learn and move faster than their competitors. While others work in isolation, they link into rich networks of possibility and expand their influence.

Connected companies around the world are aggressively acquiring customers and disrupting the competition. In The Connected Company, we examine what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and why it works. And we show you how your company can use the same principles to adapt—and thrive—in today’s ever-changing global marketplace.


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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (18 Sep 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144931905X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449319052
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 3.3 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 185,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dave Gray, SVP Strategy, Dachis Group, is an author and management consultant who works with the world's leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies. His previous book, Gamestorming (O'Reilly), has sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages.

Thomas Vander Wal has been working with folksonomies since their darkest origins, and is credited with inventing the terms 'folksonomy'and 'infocloud'. He talks and writes about folksonomies more or less continuously. Thomas is also on the Steering Committee of the Web Standards Project and helped found the Information Architecture Institute. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.



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2.0 out of 5 stars Gems if you dig for them... 8 Nov 2012
Format:Hardcover
I'll start out by saying I'm not a natural business book reader; I come from a science background and while I have an interest in business I can't say that I've read in strategy books in the past. While I found a number of interesting ideas scattered through the book I found the overall presentation somewhat nebulous, unconvincing and ultimately unsatisfying. The basic theme of 18th century top down management processes just won't cut it in the fast paced 21st century is vitally important; though arguably painfully obvious. The trouble is you don't really need a whole book to tell you this; what you do need a book to tell you is how to put this into practice. What you get a couple of slim chapters at the end of the book with some vague pointers on how to build a more connected and responsive company and a vast quantity of anecdotes and comments from various business luminaries. And the jargon, oh my lord the jargon!

Realistically the book could have been half the size and lost no content and a slightly more formal approach with something akin to case studies rather than an anecdotal approach would have been enormously useful. There are some gems buried in the book and there are certainly many companies out there that would benefit enormously from taking these ideas on board but tidying up the wooly writing, tightening the architecture and losing the ersatz sketch diagrams would make it a much more satisfying read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Leadership Book Club 16 Jun 2013
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Very interesting read, with clear & thoughtful development from section to section, chapter by chapter. I found the last half of the book quite repetitive with examples and companies from earlier, although this allowed revision and "joining the dots".
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A compelling read from beginning to end which is why I got through it in 2 days. Excellent insights into the nature of good leadership to generate the right climate for strategic speed
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4.0 out of 5 stars Spot on 14 Nov 2012
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This books nails a central issue for management. We all know we need to change but how do we actually do it?
I became a little frustrated at how long it took to get to the point, ie. the structures and strategies for implementing change. But it gets to those eventually. I'm now actually going to do something different after reading a business book. Result.
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