Smart Rivals
How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win

A solid read. I liked the breakdown of different company approaches. Well written and easy to digest. Thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for the arc.......more

I first learned about this book from an industry friend who works as a software engineer at Bloomberg. He mentioned that a CEO of a Japanese company recommended it to him and that he is helping the authors translate it into Japanese so more people in Japan can access it. Interestingly, I recently di......more

An easy read with the fundamental hypothesis being that traditional business need not try to compete to catch up with the digital natives like Amazon etc but rather outsmart them at their own game by crafting new ways of value creation for customers using tech. I liked that they used examples from n......more

I got this book as a holiday gift from one of my college friends who works at one of the companies spotlighted in the book. She told me the authors were able to distill the "gist" of learning and experience they have been through and articulate very well from an almost protagonist's perspective how......more

A set of very short cases with artificial groupings. Authors even themselves refer to the same cases as examples of different approaches. And, of course, standard “Halo effect”, when random metrics are used to define the success post hoc.......more