Outsmart: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't (Financial Times Series)

by JimChampy (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $8.49

  This is the first in a new series about how to survive in todays fast-changing business world. Outsmart shows you how to beat the competition and survive in a cut-throat business environment. The strong companies force out the weak with their successful strategies and innovative ideas, leaving the frail to either adapt or die. Those that survive gain more customers, making them even stronger.

  This book is about consistently outsmarting the competition using new business models to keep ahead. Champy uses inspiring lessons from businesses that have accelerated to the leading edge of business practice and achieved super-high growth rates for three or more years in a row. Outsmartuncovers what these companies have in common so you can follow in their footsteps.

  Drawing on extensive research, Champy shows you how to:

  * Generate relevant strategy from the frontlines of business

  * Create sustainable advantages in products and services

  * Surprise your customers by meeting their unexpected needs

  * Organise your ideas and sharpen your focus

  * Recognise when your competitors are catching up, so you can outsmart them yet again!

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.47

  This concise, fast-paced book is about consistently outsmarting the competition in an environment where even the best strategies rarely prevail. It's about companies that have accelerated to the leading edge of business practice and stayed there, year after year. And it's from the author who has written one of the most revolutionary books of all time: James Champy, author of Reengineering the Corporation. In Outsmart!, Champy teaches the remarkable lessons of businesses that have achieved super-high growth rates for 3 or more years in a row. These high-velocity companies range from classic startups to old-line family-run manufacturing businesses: from S.A. Robotics to Stonyfield Farms, MinuteClinic to Shutterfly. Champy uncovers what they share in common and shows how you can do it too in your company. Drawing on his rigorous, far-reaching research, you'll learn how to generate strategy organically: from the frontlines, executive suites, and everywhere in between. You'll discover how to outsmart your competitors by finding distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products and services, surprising delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs.You'll learn how to uncover bubbles worth bursting , organize your ideas and sharpen your focus, and combine high purpose with cool pragmatism. And you'll learn how to recognize when the world's getting ready to catch up, so you can outsmart them yet again!