De Kuijper, Mia.

Profit power economics : a new competitive strategy for creating sustainable wealth / Mia de Kuijper. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

Introduction --
Part 1. The key to profit power.
1. The power node strategy --
Part 2. Understanding the transparent economy.
2. The star driver : the vanishing cost of information --
3. The two trends of transparency : perfect information and interdependent decision making --
4. Perfect information and imperfect markets --
5. The new paradigm : powerlaw economics --
Part 3. How transparency alters the building blocks of profits.
6. The four strategic decisions in transparency --
7. Ownership focused on profit power --
8. The shape of the 21st-century firm --
9. Three-dimensional competition --
10. Strategies for powerlaw marketplaces --
Part 4. The four rules for maximizing profits in transparency.
11. From the four strategic decisions to the four rules --
Part 5. Power nodes : transparency's sources of profits and competitive weapons.
12. The 12 power nodes --
13. Managing the power nodes --
Part 6. The four rules method for maximizing profits.
14. The four rules templates and how to use them --
15. Rule #1 : Power node evaluation and action plan templates --
16. Rule #2 : 21st-century business model evaluation and action plan templates --
17. Rule #3 : 3-D competition evaluation and action plan templates --
18. Rule #4 : Powerlaw marketplace evaluation and action plan templates --
Part 7. Strategies for investors.
19. The four rules method : added value for investors --
Part 8. Conclusion.
20. On gaining perspective.

9780195171631 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195171632 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780198073185 (PB)

2008048624


Strategic planning.
Profit.
Information technology--Management.

HD30.28 / .D3962 2009

658.4012 / DE