Smart Business, Ming Zeng
Smart Business, Ming Zeng
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Smart Business
What Alibaba's Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy

Author: Ming Zeng

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/27/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Leaders already know that the classic approach to strategy—analyze, plan, execute—is losing relevance. But they don't yet know what replaces it. As everyone and everything becomes more interconnected and digitized, how do you operate, compete, and win?

Ming Zeng, the former chief of staff and strategy adviser to Alibaba Group's founder Jack Ma, explains how the latest technological developments, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, the mobile internet, and cloud computing are redefining how value is created. Written especially for those outside the technology industry or the startup arena, this book introduces a simple, overarching framework to guide strategy formulation and execution in this data-rich and highly interactive environment.

Revealing the revolutionary practices that he and his team have developed at Alibaba, Zeng shows how to: automate decisions through machine learning; create products informed by real-time data from customers; determine the right strategic positioning to maximize value from platforms and suppliers; repurpose your organization to further human insight and enable creativity; and lead your company's transformation into a smart business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marks54 on April 15, 2019

This is an informed and up-to-date review of the strategies of the Alibaba group written by the former Chief Strategy Officer who currently runs the company business school/university. As a business trade book, this is fairly well done and readable although as an HBS volume, do not expect a gripping......more

Goodreads review by Quintin on July 18, 2018

I have ready many books regarding Google, Facebook and Apple, but Smart Business is the first regarding the Chinese behemoth, Alibaba. Smart Business embraces the innovative power of Chinese business which has a distinctly different approach to the West. Much like Google and Amazon, there are similar......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian on November 05, 2020

Very hard to assess and review properly. On one hand there's plenty of valuable content - regarding business model, strategy, market approach, value generation, even culture. But the form sucks - the book is incredibly "dry", like written by robots. I'd even call it "mechanical". As a result, in my c......more

Goodreads review by Steve on September 30, 2018

This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 9/30, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet. [URL not allowed] [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Deepak on July 18, 2023

A book that fleshes out the network coordination plus data intelligence moat built by Alibaba. A must read for those working at platforms. My notes from the book - Tmall and Taobao have different sellers. Former has bigger ones / latter has smaller ones. Taobao does not charge any commission but mak......more