Speaking
I speak on topics related to business, strategy and technology. From conceiving and implementing FAST strategies to pragmatic technology approaches, I seek to challenge traditional assumptions and help uncover simple, yet profitable solutions best suited to your company's situation. Get details >>

Papers
- Moving from Push to Pull - Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Capturing the Real Value from Offshoring in Asia (PDF)
John Hagel

- The Agile Dance of Architectures – Reframing IT Enabled Business Opportunities (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Overview of Working Paper Series (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Break On Through to the Other Side: A Missing Link in Redefining the Enterprise (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- The Secret to Creating Value from Web Services Today: Start Simply (PDF)
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Dennis Layton-Rodin

- Service Grids: The Missing Link in Web Services (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Some Security Considerations for Service Grids (PDF)
Martin Milani and John Seely Brown

- Control versus Trust: Mastering a Different Management Approach (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Orchestrating Business Processes - Harnessing the Value of Web Services Technology (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown

- Orchestrating Loosely Coupled Business Processes: The Secret to Successful Collaboration (PDF)
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Scott Durchslag

Newsletter

Hagel's Strategy & Technology Letter

I am preparing to issue a monthly newsletter to help put you in the flow. My books and articles are not enough for some of you. You want insight sooner and more frequently. You want the edge to act and invest ahead of the rest.

The intersection of business strategy and information technology creates fertile ground for new opportunities. The newsletter will help you to see where and how these opportunities will emerge.

Vision and pragmatism will be the distinctive elements, helping you to understand long-term trends as a context for actionable advice on how to move today. For early notification of the opportunity to subscribe to this newsletter, register here.

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Blog
- EdgePerspectives blog

Books

The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization
by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown

view ongoing research:
www.edgeperspectives.com

ALSO
- Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services
by John Hagel III
- Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules
by John Hagel, III and Marc Singer
- Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities
By John Hagel, III and Arthur G. Armstrong

Articles

- Institutional Innovations: A Silicon Valley nonprofit fostered the development of a radical open-source platform for top-level health research (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, May 2008

- Life on the Edge: Learning from Facebook (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, April 2008

- Learning from Tata's Nano (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, February 2008

- Catching the Innovation Wave (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, January 2008)

- Phoning from the Edge: What companies can learn from Google's efforts to reshape the U.S. mobile communications business (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, Jan 09, 2008

- Creation Nets: Harnessing the Potential of Open Innovation (co-authored with John Seely Brown) April, 2006

- Funding Invention Vs. Managing Innovation (co-authored with John Seely Brown) BusinessWeek, Feb 16, 2005

- Connecting Globalization & Innovation: Some Contrarian Perspectives (Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland January 25 – 30, 2006; co-authored with John Seely Brown)

- "The Benefits of a Long Distance Relationship" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), August 9, 2005

- "Feed R&D - Or Farm It Out?" (HBR Case Study with Commentary co-authored with John Seely Brown), July 2005

- "Productive Friction: How Difficult Business Partnerships Can Accelerate Innovation" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), February 2005

- "From Push to Pull: The Next Frontier of Innovation" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), 2005, No.3

- "Innovation Blowback: Disruptive Management Practices from Asia" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), 2005, No.1

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