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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Blogs
- The Big Shift (HBR)
- EdgePerspectives blog

Books

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison

ALSO

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

Deloitte

ongoing research:
The 2009 Shift Index
The Big Shift Index: Uncovering the Emerging Logic of Deep Change
www.edgeperspectives.com

Cloud Computing working papers

BusinessWeek

The Next Wave of Open Innovation
April, 2009

Does the Experience Curve Matter Today?
April, 2009

Peer-to-Patent: A System for Increasing Transparency
March, 2009

How World of Warcraft Promotes Innovation
January, 2009

Harrah's New Twist on Prediction Markets
December, 2008

Innovation for Hard Times
November 2008

How SAP Seeds Innovation
July 2008

Student Activism Can Change the World
May 2008

Myelin Repair Foundation's Institutional Innovation
May 2008

Learning from Facebook
April 2008

Learning from Tata's Nano
February 2008

Catching the Innovation Wave
January 2008

Phoning from the Edge
January 2008

Embrace the Edge - or Perish
November 2007

Funding Invention vs. Managing Innovation
February 2006

Articles

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

- 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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