Competing in a Flat World
The “Competing in a Flat World” Awards
Knowledge@Wharton and Wharton School Publishing are pleased to announce a global competition for the best strategies for competing in a flat world. Two prizes will be awarded, one for the best strategies that work and one for the best insights from failures.
If you accept that “the world is flat,” in Thomas Friedman’s words, what should you do about it? How do you need to change your business for this new terrain? In their new book, Competing in a Flat World, authors William Fung, Victor Fung and Jerry Wind provide a set of principles for competing in this borderless world drawn from the experiences of Li & Fung. These are principles that have helped Li & Fung build a US$9 billion networked enterprise producing clothing, toys and other products for some of the world’s best known brands. While these approaches can be applied by any business, they are by no means exhaustive. Many other companies are conducting their own experiments to discover new ways to compete in this flat world.
We now challenge our readers to submit your own stories of business models, approaches and principles that you have used to compete in a flat world. The entries will be judged by a panel of experts, based on impact, creativity, and transferability to others. Submissions should be essays of no more than 1,000 words, addressing the following questions:
• What did you do?
• Why did you do it?
• What was the motivation?
• What were the results?
Please submit your entries to competinginaflatworld@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is December 31, and the winning entries will be highlighted on the Competing in a Flat World website, the Wharton School Publishing website, and the Knowledge@Wharton website. Winners will also receive a certificate as well as 10 books of their choice from Wharton School Publishing. We look forward to your ideas.
To learn more about this new book please visit the Competing in a Flat World page on Amazon.com.
