HBR IdeaCast
HBR IdeaCast
Harvard Business Review
How Companies Like Google and Alibaba Respond to Fast-Moving Markets
19 minutes Posted Oct 1, 2019 at 7:15 am.
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Dave Ulrich, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, argues today's companies need to replace old hierarchical models with he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem.” From research at Alibaba, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and others, he shows the impressive results of orienting teams and processes toward market opportunities. Ulrich is the coauthor, along with Tencent senior advisor Arthur Yeung, of “Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Markets.”