Pierre Loewe, Strategos, 2460 Sand Hill Rd., Ste. 202, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. Email: ploewe@strategos.com

Pierre Loewe is a Founding Director of Strategos, an international strategy innovation firm based in Menlo Park, CA. His primary focus at Strategos has been on guiding client teams charged with identifying new opportunities and developing breakthrough strategies for their companies. Previous posts include Senior VP at Gemini Consulting and Director of Marketing for Salomon North America.

Peter Williamson, ISEAD EURO-ASIA CENTRE, Boulevard de Constance, 77309 Fontainebleau, Cedex, France. Email: peter.williamson@ attglobal.net

Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD Fountainebleu, France and Singapore. Hi research spans globalization, strategies in Asia and strategic alliances. His latest book, "From Global to MetaNational: How Companies Win in the Global Knowledge Economy," sets out a blueprint for how multinationals can prosper in the global knowledge economy by developing their capability for 'learning from the world'.

Robert Chapman Wood, 874 Union Street, Rockland, MA, 02370, USA. Email: rwood@strategos.com

Robert Chapman Wood is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Program on Organizational Change at Harvard Business School and Researcher affiliated with the Strategos Institute, California. His recently completed doctoral dissertation at Boston University examined how large firms successfully begin processes of continuing strategy innovation.

We would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Mark S. Bonchek and the corporate members of the Strategos Institute to the research on which this article is based.