Co-Creating the Future

Life-Experience Value Co-Creation
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Peter Senge

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“Few thinkers have sensed and shaped emerging trends in strategy more successfully than C. K. Prahalad. Yet, ideas like ‘strategic intent’ and ‘core competencies’ may prove to be precursors to his most important contribution, in collaboration with Venkat Ramaswamy--rethinking the nature of competition itself in the age of global networks.

The shift in power from businesses that determine what customers need and then manipulate demand to meet their offerings to networks of customers and producers who jointly create value may be the defining shift in market structure in the first part of the twenty-first century.

As usual, C. K. Prahalad, along with co-author Venkat Ramaswamy, has gotten there first and offered the first guide for navigating the ‘decentered’ value creation processes of the future.”

Peter Senge
Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning,
Senior Lecturer, Leadership and Sustainability, MIT
Author,
The Fifth Discipline

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The Future of Competition

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Prahalad, C. K., and Venkat Ramaswamy. 2004. The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

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Release of a “visionary book” The Future of Competition on the revolutionary concept of co-creation (Harvard Business School Press).
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The Pick of This Year's Crop of Books - BusinessWeek Top 10 Books of 2004

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Top 10 Book of 2004


To respond to forces that are shaping consumer behavior, corporations may need to partner with their customers, say C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy in The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers (Harvard Business School Press). Only by letting individual corporate customers and consumers fashion products and services will business leaders escape the trap in which their products' only distinction is price, say the two professors at the University of Michigan Business School.

Reviewer Steve Hamm found that the "provocative" book lays out "how to change organizational behavior to make co-creation natural rather than an isolated, heroic act." The authors have sweeping change in mind: Alterations must be made to every corporate function, from product development to sales and marketing. Indeed, what the duo contemplates is nothing less than the democratization of commerce.

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An Important Book, Full of Disruptive Ideas - Business Week

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Excellent New Book - Fortune

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In an excellent new book, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers, authors C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy describe the consumer's new role: "from isolated to connected, from unaware to informed, from passive to active." In the bottom-up economy, presuming you know what the customer wants is the ultimate error. Prahalad and Ramaswamy instead call for "co-creation of value": The successful products and services from now on will be those developed jointly -- company and customer working hand in hand.

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Prahalad and Ramaswamy demonstrate that personalized experiences are created through the interaction of companies and customers: More-active customers and less-in-control companies “co-create” value, making customers a full element of the business model.

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The Customer as Collaborator

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Synopsis of The Future of Competition book.

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CNBC TV Series on the Future of Competition



Eight episode TV series, together with C. K. Prahalad, and anchor Ashu Dutt, based on The Future of Competition (HBS Press, 2004).
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Thanks to Subha Chatterjee.
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Engaged with Business Today editors and journalists on “The Future of Competition”, together with C. K. Prahalad.

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George S. Day

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The Future of Competition is a stimulating antidote for those locked into product-centered thinking. Customers have both the motivation and teh emans for taking more control over their interactions with you. These informed, connected, and active participants in the value creation process will surely reshape markets. This book anticipates and navigates that transition.”

George S. Day
Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor and Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation,
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Future of Competition - Japanese Edition

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Japanese Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Future of Competition - Chinese Edition

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Chinese Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Czech Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Dutch Edition of The Future of Competition.
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German Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Future of Competition - Spanish Edition

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Spanish Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Portuguese Edition of The Future of Competition.
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Future of Competition - Italian Edition

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Italian Edition of The Future of Competition.
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The Future of Competition - How to put your customers to work

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Book Excerpt of The Future Of Competition in CIO Magazine.


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