Goliaths Revenge, Todd Hewlin
Goliaths Revenge, Todd Hewlin
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Goliath's Revenge
How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors

Author: Todd Hewlin, Scott A. Snyder

Narrator: Brian Hutchison

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2019


Synopsis

Harness your company's incumbent advantages to win the digital disruption game Goliath's Revenge is the practical guide for how executives and aspiring leaders of established companies can run the Silicon Valley playbook for themselves and capitalize on digital disruption. Technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things, blockchain, and immersive experiences are changing the basis of competition in every industry. New competitors are emerging while traditional ones are falling behind. Periods of intense change provide remarkable opportunities. Goliath's Revenge delivers an insider's view of how industry leaders like General Motors, NASA, The Weather Channel, Hitachi, Mastercard, Proctor & Gamble, Penn Medicine, Discovery, and Cisco are accelerating innovation, building new skills, and disrupting themselves to come out stronger in this post-digital age. Learn how to leverage your company's scale, reach, data, and expertise to launch breakthrough offerings that fend off attackers and secure your position as a future industry leader. Using real success cases and recommendations, this invaluable resource shows how to realign your business model, reset your talent development priorities, and retake market share lost to digital-ready competitors. Drawing from extensive experience in digital transformation, leadership development, and strategic planning, the authors show how established companies can switch from defense to offense to thrive in this new digital environment. Learn the six new rules that separate winners from losers in the age of digital disruption Prioritize your innovation investments to rebuild your competitive moat Employ smart cannibalization to defend your core business Deliver step-change customer outcomes to grow into adjacent markets Reframe your purpose and make talent the centerpiece of your digital innovation strategy Goliath's Revenge is a must-read for business leaders and innovators in small, mid-sized, and large organizations trying to win the digital disruption game. This book helps you reset both your company strategy and professional development priorities for long-term success.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David H Deans on December 25, 2020

Change Management: Overcoming Subversive Deception Given the recent history, and the apparent ineptitude of CEOs who failed to heed the warning signs, only a fool would underestimate the potential of a digital disruption to turn their industry upside down. I read this book, Goliath’s Revenge, wonderin......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on August 25, 2019

The authors hypothesise that big and traditional companies have an excellent opportunity to take advantage fo the digital disruption over to the silicon valley natives to succeed. And how the reinvention of GE and P&G are living examples to prove it. To their benefit, they develop a complete tool-kit......more

Goodreads review by Igor on February 16, 2023

I have argued in the past that established companies have an edge over startups. This is why unlike fintechs Big Techs are such a serious threat. To be successful though, incumbents need to know how to play their cards. This book gives them a game plan to stay atop by using the techniques of their c......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on July 19, 2020

This book provides much to think about and great perspective. Here is a sampling from the beginning of the book: “Goliath’s Revenge” is when established companies are getting wise to David’s strategy, tactics, and tools. They have seen some of their traditional competitors succumb to the digital att......more

Goodreads review by Syed on June 17, 2019

Very well written book with solid examples of how large companies (GM, P&G, NASA, Hitachi....) have been able to effectively innovate themselves in the near past and the large advantages they possess to win the game vis a vis smaller players/startups. The book provides a prescriptive set of rules for......more