{"product_id":"reinventing-giants-9781118602232","title":"Reinventing Giants","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eChinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the \"world's best\" companies. This book offers a compelling profile of the most ambitious of these emerging Chinese competitors, the Haier Corporation (the world's largest manufacturer of home appliances), and shares insights on how one organization has repeatedly reinvented its business model and corporate culture in an effort to sustain its success.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReinventing Giants\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exclusive look within the Haier Corporation and shows how managerial accountability and responsibility have been repositioned at every level of the organization, with the core value of market-centricity, while aligning strategy on each level of management. It includes actual work reports that show this process in detail from the ground up. The authors emphasize how a belief in the liberation of employee talent has consistently been the driving force underlying Haier's success.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes the remarkable story of Haier's turnaround and how these lessons can be applied to other organizations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains information for any company grappling with competition in the global marketplace\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how to liberate employees' talent to drive business success\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management at IMD in Switzerland, Umberto Lago, Professor of Management at Bologna University, Italy, and Fang Liu, Research Associate of IMD\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReinventing Giants\u003c\/i\u003e helps global managers rethink their own business models and accompanying corporate cultures in order to be able to apply Haier's lessons directly to their own organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Fischer\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of innovation management at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Formerly he was executive president and dean of the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai and the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Professor of Business at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He writes \u003ci\u003eThe Ideas Business\u003c\/i\u003e blog for Forbes.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUmberto Lago\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Management at Bologna University in Italy. He has been, at different stages of his life (often simultaneously): a university professor, private and public manager, entrepreneur, and consultant. He is a member of UEFA Club Financial Control Body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFang Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is a research associate at IMD. Her research focuses on fields such as management innovation, marketing, and global business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183233827090,"sku":"9781118602232","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38f89141-87bd-416d-b85d-45379208d793.jpg?v=1744459036","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reinventing-giants-9781118602232","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}