...Ram Ranganathan; John Chen Multi-party technology coordination bodies that bring together hundreds of firms to define the technical rules of interaction between components in a product-system, are an increasingly influential organizational arrangement, as exemplified by the market success...

... of the process of strategic transformation. I first discuss the sources of inertia that Rumelt identifies, which is what his chapter is best known for. Then I discuss his competence-based model of strategic transformation, in which cross-departmental coordination plays a prominent role, and suggest ways...