Bestselling author Geoffrey Moore shows companies how to rise to the challenge of natural selection—and master their own evolution

Geoffrey Moore is one of the most respected and bestselling names in business books. In his widely quoted Crossing the Chasm, he identified and addressed the greatest challenge facing new ventures. Now he's back with a book for established businesses that need to learn how to adapt—or suffer the slow declines into marginalized performance that have characterized so many Fortune 500 icons in recent years.

Deregulation, globalization, and e-commerce are exerting unprecedented pressures on company profits. In this new economic ecosystem, companies must dramatically differentiate from their direct competitors—or risk declining performance and eventual extinction. But how do companies choose the right innovation strategy? Or overcome internal inertia that resists the kind of radical commitments needed to truly set the company's offers apart?

Illustrating his arguments with more than one hundred examples and a full-length case study based on his unprecedented access to Cisco Systems, Moore shows businesses how to meet today's Darwinian challenges, whether they're producing commodity products or customized services. For companies whose competitive differentiation to the marketplace is still effective, he demonstrates how innovations in execution can help boost productivity, whether a company is competing in a growth market, a mature market, or even a declining market. For companies in danger of succumbing to competitive pressures, he shows how to overcome inertia by engaging the entire corporate community in an unceasing commitment to innovate and evolve.

For any business competing in today's eat-or-be-eaten economic jungle, this groundbreaking guide shows not only how to survive, but also thrive.

杰弗里·摩尔 高科技营销魔法之父，硅谷战略与创新咨询专家。他所创立的关于技术产品生命周期的定律，被称为新摩尔定律。他的研究以公司盈利的关键点“销售”为切入点，把精力都集中于公司的生存和发展上。摩尔是鸿沟咨询公司的创始人，同时担任一些声名显赫的商业领袖(如思科的CEO约翰·钱伯斯)的私人顾问，帮助高科技公司化解企业策略和营销方针上的危机，惠普、微软、甲骨文等公司都是摩尔的客户。他的著作已经成为哈佛、斯坦福等许多商学院的必读书。