The Case for Transformation

In a world where investor capital flows promiscuously across borders, where fickle customers emigrate at will, and where crippling competition increasingly immigrates from outside the firm's conventional value chain, successful business leaders guide themselves today by a mantra that would be unfamiliar to most of their predecessors: Complexity and uncertainty are the challenge. Transformation is the path. Resilience is the goal. How companies and their leaders can build the adaptive capabilities to turn initial beneficial change into lasting advantage and resilience is the subject of a new two-volume set of research and case studies from Booz Allen Hamilton and strategy+business magazine.

In volume one, The Case for Transformation, we explain how companies create and sustain the capabilities to adapt to continual, discontinuous change. In volume two, Transformation Cases, we have assembled case studies that describe how specific companies, in a variety of industries, have pursued such strategy-based transformation. The authors of the strategy+business articles collected in these Readers include top business journalists, senior executives, and consultants from Booz Allen.