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Insights for Industry: Competing in Emerging Technologies

You're a busy manager facing the challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies. Your industry is being transformed, and might even be replaced, as the result of technological innovations that are reshaping the competitive landscape. Your organization is being forced to contend with increasing risk, uncertainty and change.
Your competitors are applying technology in ways you haven't seen before. Their strategies are non-traditional but effective, and include powerful new best practices, new forms of organizations, and new types of alliances.
How do you compete? How do you survive? And how do you succeed?
The Mack Center offers answers these and other pressing questions of interest and concern to senior decision makers in many industries.  As a learning network, we provide a valuable forum where critical issues can be discussed by academic experts and industry managers.

Through our ongoing program of sponsored faculty research, insight-building events and corporate networking, we provide a continuing stream of fresh ideas that you can use to compete, survive and succeed in technology-driven industries.

We invite you to treat this as an "insight site" and periodically stop by to review our latest research and hopefully discover some new ideas that will benefit your organization. 


Many of these insights are captured in working papers, articles and books that are catalogued on this site, and in conference reports that capture key insights from our events in a format that offers quick reading for busy executives.  A few of our most recent conference reports include:

● Creating and Managing Networks of Innovation

● Innovation and Organic Growth: Balancing Risk and Reward

● Managing Systems of Innovation: Improving the Capacity to Innovate

These reports contain presentations by industry decision makers as well as academic experts from Wharton and other leading business schools.

Upcoming reports will focus on "Intelligence Gathering" and "Technology Enabled Business Transformation."

Upcoming Events

Fri - Feb. 1 - 2008
Click here for a Summary of the 10th Annual Emerging Technologies Update Day: "The Future of Connectivity" 

Fri - Feb. 29 - 2008
Wharton Business Technology Conference - The Mack Center is a co-sponsor of this event, which is organized by Wharton MBA students - the presentations and panels are focused on the Technology Industry - for more information and to register, click here.

April 25-26- 2008
8th Annual Tech Mini Conference - this academic event showcases research in progress by talented management researchers from leading business schools, worldwide. (Click here to see agenda)

Fri. - June 6 - 2008
Winners and Losers in Green Technologies
What are the strategies successful companies are pursuing to "win" in the green technology sector?  What are the incentives, benefits, and pitfalls?  Where should your company be positioned?