Winners and Losers

Creators and Casualties of the Age of the Internet

Kieran Levis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2009
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-84354-965-9 (ISBN)

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Winners and Losers tells the stories of the creators - and the causalities - of the Age of the Internet. It shows how a handful of businesses were born and rose to enormous heights and how others fell from them, in a new, networked, ferociously competitive economy.Kieran Levis reveals how a few innovative, far sighted entrepreneurs and companies succeeded in creating entirely new markets and dominating them, while so many others failed. He show how Amazon and Google rose from nothing to revenues of billions, whilst IBM, Kodak and AOL suddenly faced disaster; how Nokia and Sky bounced from near-bankruptcy to global leadership; and charts the incredible rise, fall and rise again of Apple.Levis explains why the digital revolution has involved so much creative destruction; how unfamiliar competitors, disruptive technologies and bizarre business models have brought down apparently unassailable market leaders; how some winners got such a grip on their customers that they took almost all the prizes; and how meteoric success has led to hubris, and often to nemesis.Told with clarity, wit and pace, these dramatic stories show what it was about a handful of winners that enabled them to hold onto their leads, whilst the absence of these qualities crippled the losers.

Kieran Levis is Principal of Cortona Consulting, which advises companies on business and marketing strategy in markets for new media and technology. Kieran has worked in this field since 1980: as a business executive, he devised and launched new ventures in online information and satellite television and took some to profitability; as a management consultant he has helped companies like HP, Intel, the Open University, and the BBC, and start-ups on both sides of the Atlantic, to evaluate opportunities and threats in new and volatile markets.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 233 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
Schlagworte	Erfolg
ISBN-10	1-84354-965-4 / 1843549654
ISBN-13	978-1-84354-965-9 / 9781843549659
Zustand	Neuware