Hyperinnovation: Multidimensional Enterprise in the Connected Economy

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Summary: It seems Hype-less books don't work well !!
Review: The author is proposing a new management model, but it's farthest from being another hype book,and may be this is why it didn't get as much coverage and attention that it should have got.
What really makes this book serious and different is its deep investigation of the business world around us as a "Complex system" and how we can deal with it according the new angle. The complexity theory, which is the inspiration for many of the insights of the book, is concerned with how many different related agents work as a whole, and how the new and multidimensional connections between these agents can give possibility to utterly new relations to emerge.
The author then applies this on the business world in a compelling way, esp in his explanation of how a single new agent, and consequently the new connections that get fromed, can influence the whole web of innovation/the business world. I see that the book explains a lot of what's going around in the business world. for example, the introduction of a single new agent to the innovation web; Google's technology, has triggered new connections everywhere, and has prompted the giants like Microsoft to catch up. But stil in the complext system, Google remains as an influential agent that has affected the whole Web.
Also, accoring the complexity theory, you can never predict the outcomes, and you just have to cope uncertainty, and if you embrace that you can even thrive at these times (as the book states). This, i think, should inspire us of how to eye Microsoft now. Any viewer of the threats to Microsoft now, would come up with the idea that Microsoft is facing a multitude of invincible threats on a myriad fronts, from Open-source threat (which is REALLY a major one) to being kicked back in search market by google, to being knocked off by Sony in Game console market, to be threatened at the web-browser market by the alliance between IBM and Opera to produce a Voice-enhanced browser.. and many others. All these threats seem not to scare Microsoft, may be they are able to survive, if not thrive, in the era of uncertainty and the unpredictable, as they view threats as a part of the complex-system package.
I'm really disappointed that an excellent book like HyperInnovation doesn't get what it deserves, compared to other hype books that rise to fame at the blink of an eye.
The author of the book, Chris Harris, who is the former Development and Innovation at Boeing, gave the common reader insights that they wouldn't find otherwise in any other book. <...