The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success

By Peter S. Cohan

Book Overview

Follow America's High-Tech Leaders to Sustained Growth and Profitability ?With forceful and engaging style, Cohan describes what makes technology companies like Hewlett-Packard so successful....Any executive aspiring to market leadership should read The Technology Leaders.' -- Dean O. Morton, retired executive vice president, COO and director, Hewlett-Packard Company As organizations emerge from an era of epochal downsizing, managers are beginning to realize that repeated cost-cutting is no longer the path to sustained profitable growth. Clearly, a new strategy is called for. In this landmark work, Peter Cohan details the practices of today's most vital, prosperous companies -- America's high-tech leaders -- and demonstrates how other companies can follow their remarkable example and thrive in a hypercompetitive marketplace driven by rapid product innovation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787910724
• ISBN13: 9780787910723
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read for technology executives and managers

Cohan's concise style and keen insights make for outstanding reading. The case studies are clear and pertinent and the conclusions well thought out. Rather than following the next management paradygm, Cohan applied thought to the issue of maintaining leadership in a highly competitive marketplace. Take the time. It's worth every minute.