Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition (Management of Innovation and Change) Hardcover – November 1, 1995

Worth adding to your reading list (especially at the price). This is one of a handful of concepts you need to be great at the strategy of business.

Although you might debate if the framework from Adrian Slywotzky can be used to reach actionable conclusions, it is at least thought provoking. The key premise is that everything is a business model, and business models have life cycles, where they grow, accrue value to their users, peak, then start giving up value to new business models. Like a lot of frameworks, there isn't much here to tell you what your next business model should be. However, the thought process, and defining stages of the life cycle, is useful as a way to review your current business and consider if you are about to be faced with out-flowing value migration.

Excellent book

I discovered this book during a business trip to Phoenix in 1996, and it still occupies a space on my special shelf of books that have deeply influenced me.As the most basic level the concept of value migration is business design, and the ability of that design to evolve in a dynamic market. The simple map of where your business, which is a function of design, is summed up in three states: value inflow, stability or outflow.At a more complex level, this book provides seven patterns that serve as markers to show how value can migrate from one business (or industry) to another. The final part of this book shows how the concepts and patterns can be applied in your own business.The foregoing may erroneously give the impression that this book is heavy on concept and lite on practicality. It's not. The material is meticulously presented, reinforced by recognizable examples drawn from industries, and prescriptive measures are laid out with realism and pragmatism. The concepts are what have influenced me. After reading this book I've looked at certain industry trends differently, and after eight years my observations bear out the premise of this book. This is highly actionable information that is invaluable to any company that wants to prevent the outflow of value, while capitalizing on stability and finding ways to create inflow. A more recent book that meshes nicely with this one is "The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model" ISBN 1576751678. In fact, that book extends this book in many ways, especially with respect to business design, and further proves the concepts Slywotzky set forth in this book in 1996.

This is a good book to read if you're a business owner or manager. This book will teach you how to identify shifts in your industry and decide on a plan to stay ahead of the competition. This book will guide your business and help you understand what to do in order to be profitableRomeo Richards,How To Market and Manage A Corporate Training Firm

Good book on recoginzing companies starting to stagnate and rely more on dividends and buybacks of stock to make up for new product lines and revenue growing ideas.

Front page color fade a lot, but inner part is good and clean.

Should be manadatory reading for all MBA programs