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Elävä strategia
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The concept of Elävä Strategia seeks to improve the map an organization uses for the continuous development of its strategy. Instead of crafting a vision set in stone, it leverages artificial intelligence, scenarios, analytics, and experimentation to enhance the organization’s ability to identify which critical opportunities are opening—and which are closing—in a rapidly changing world. This enables swift action and allows organizations to capitalize on change for their benefit.
The past valued visionary leaders with strong convictions about where the world was heading. Today, we need leaders who recognize that even their own ideas from yesterday may already be outdated. We need leaders who acknowledge the facts, work based on the best understanding of the present, and inspire their organizations to do the same.
“Static or annually updated strategic thinking is no longer sufficient. Elävä Strategia clearly illustrates both the forces driving change in strategy formation and the means to create a living, scenario-based strategic approach. I highly recommend it!”
— Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Board, Nokia and F-Secure
“The title of Elävä Strategia says it all: a successful strategy is no longer carved in stone for years but is instead a process of continuous formation, renewal, and implementation.
The book shares examples of strategic choices, leadership challenges, failures, and ongoing processes during periods of change. For this reason, it is essential reading for anyone engaged in strategic leadership.
The seven-topic summary with 32 key questions at the end is excellent. In leadership, a great question is always better than a brilliant answer to the wrong question.”
— Jorma Eloranta, Honorary Mining Counselor, Chairman of the Board
“Business is an endless and ever-evolving game where rules, competitors, and the very nature of the game often change suddenly. Elävä Strategia introduces a new logic to strategic thinking, while also providing a highly concrete playbook for dynamic strategic leadership.”
— Pekka Puustinen, Chief Customer Officer, Ilmarinen
Platform Strategy - Transform your business with AI, platforms and human intelligence
This book leads you through the seven steps you can take to turn your business into a successful platform. It unveils how winning platform companies like Tesla and Amazon operate and how you can apply it in traditional business. Uncover how business leaders at companies as diverse as John Deere, KONE, Goldman Sachs, and Hilti lead their businesses to the future by reinventing their business model.
“Ojanperä and Vuori’s Platform Strategy is a unique book. It combines Ojanperä’s hand on experience of a senior executive grappling with the opportunities and threats of platform dynamics and Vuori’s path-breaking work on the impact on affect and emotions on senior-team action. As a result, Platform Strategy is an amazingly helpful book linking platform and AI to an incumbent firm’s shift in strategy and, in turn, organizational transformation. The uniqueness of this book is that it provides research-based and experience-based insights to help senior executives both think and feel their way through platform strategies. This book belongs on both leaders’ desks and academics’ desks.
— Michael Tushman, Professor, Harvard Business School and Author of Lead and Disrupt, Winning Through Innovation, and Navigating Change - How CEO’s, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation
“Platform Strategy provides a straightforward seven-step program on how executives build and execute a strategy for the AI and platform era. Its unique approach builds on extensive research, numerous case studies, and practical guidance—a must-read book for leaders.”
— Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman, F‐Secure Corporation, former Chairman, Nokia
“Platform business models together with AI create a new competitive advantage and superior value for customers. A clear and practical guide on how to build an Intelligent Platform with your team and external stakeholders.”
— Henrik Ehrnrooth, Former CEO of KONE
"This book brilliantly ties together the essential components needed for transforming your business using AI, platform thinking, and human creativity.”
— Mårten Mickos, CEO, Hacker One, former CEO, MySQL and Senior Vice President, HP and Sun Microsystem