May I throw in two additional remarks:
1.) Regarding Co-opetition, Gordon Housworth mentioned some web adresses
worth to be looked at in LO15323:
http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/
http://servicesector.iwaynet.net/nalebuff.htm
http://www.inforamp.net/~tci/coopetition.html
2.) Regarding "Hypercompetition", I strongly recommend the article of
Michael Porter in HBR this year.
Hypercompetition seems to me to become a selffullfilling prophecy. It
occurs when everybody tries to fix their problems in the same way. By the
time competitors loose their differenciation. But without differenciation,
competition is a struggle for life and death. The situation is systemic:
While heading for a competitive edge through improved efficiency (quality,
cost, time - doing things right), the players become more and more
exchangable - they loose their effectivity (doing the right things). Isn't
this the archetype "limit of growth"? Meanwhile the second limit is
reached: The first limit was the limit of quanitative growth. The solution
was qualitative growth of efficiency: TQM, Reengineering,
Time-Management...The next step as a systemic solution need to be
qualitative growth of effectivity. Porter gives a great example on this.
Best Regards
Winfried
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