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The Limits of Business Development and Economic Growth

Why Business Will Need to Invest Less in the Future

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  • © 2004

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  1. Mats Larsson
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 1-3

  3. A Grim View of Development: The End of Growth as We Know it?

    1. A Grim View of Development: The End of Growth as We Know it?

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 4-23

  4. The Historic Development of Competitive Advantage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-26
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    2. Product Proliferation, Quality and Price

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 27-37

    3. Time as a Competitive Advantage

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 38-48

    4. Agility as a Source of Competitive Advantage

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 49-53

  5. Strategic and Operational Limits of Competitive Advantages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-56
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    2. Strategy and Operational Efficiency

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 57-65

    3. Production Processes

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 66-71

    4. Transportation Processes and Vehicle Maintenance

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 72-74

    5. Product Speed and Capacity

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 75-78

    6. Research and Development Processes

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 79-80

    7. E-Business and the Promise of Creativity and Economic Growth

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 81-106

    8. The Limits of Development

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 107-121

  6. The Race Towards Zero

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124
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    2. The General Drive to Compress Time and Reduce Cost

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 125-142

    3. Print-on-Demand

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 143-155

    4. The Gradual Growth of Broadband Communication and Print-on-Demand

      • Mats Larsson
      Pages 156-166

  7. New Sources of Competitive Advantage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-168
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The economy has hit a soft patch.' - US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, reacting to the weak US job growth in June 2004 Mats Larsson: 'No, the economy is closing in on the limits of business development and economic growth and we are starting to see the consequences. In the next few years we will need to rethink economic policies and business strategies.' The Limits of Business Development and Economic Growth details what this means for your company, your industry or your country! There are limits to business development and economic growth. With the help of modern production and information technologies, companies are coming ever closer to the limits of what can be achieved but ultimately nothing can be done in less than no time and at less than no cost. We now need to find areas of competitive advantage that have not yet been fully exploited. This book presents both the problems and the solutions in an accessible way for experts and non-experts alike.

About the author

MATS LARSSON is a management consultant, with fifteen years experience in strategy development, IT-management and process development. He has previously co-written two books about e-business with David Lundberg. In both of these they have pursued the idea of electronic markets as 'transparent' markets, which has lead them to draw conclusions that are different from most other authors on e-business. The first of these books was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 1998 under the title of The Transparent Market.

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