Competitive Advantage
Jim Champy on How to Outsmart Your Competition
Lessons learned from companies that have achieved super-high growth.
October 10, 2008 / Podcast # 08-41
Jim Champy inspired legions of business leaders with his bestseller Reengineering the Corporation. In his new book Outsmart!, Champy describes nine companies that have achieved breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting the competition. Champy tells their fascinating success stories, revealing powerful, counterintuitive strategies for finding distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages for growth rates. Read more…
John Mariotti on Conquering the Complexity Crisis
Why having too many products, markets, and customers is crippling your company -- and what to do about it.
September 26, 2008 / Podcast # 08-39
In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, many companies have created dozens of new products and services to increase their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits.
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Robert Bloom on Finding Your Company’s Inside Advantage
Growth and success in business amounts to a simple formula: Knowing what you're good at and doing it better than anyone else.
August 22, 2008 / Podcast # 08-34
Every enterprise has at least one strategic asset-one existing strength-that can form the foundation for future growth. Finding this hidden potential and becoming well known for it will grow the business. Robert H. Bloom calls this the Inside Advantage, which happens to be the title of his new book. Read more…
Edward Lawler on Making People Your Competitive Advantage
How should organizations be designed to make talent their key sources of a competitive advantage?
August 1, 2008 / Podcast # 08-31
In today’s global business environment, it’s more and more difficult to gain a competitive edge, but it’s not impossible. Talent, potentially the most powerful source of competitive advantage, is available. In Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage, the follow up to his best selling book, Built To Change, Edward Lawler shows how organizations can combine the right organization design, management practices, and talent to gain a critical performance edge.
Erich Joachimsthaler on Opportunities Hidden in Plain Sight
Companies must innovate to grow, but they often forget to look beyond their own brands.
February 22, 2008 / Podcast # 08-08
In his book Hidden in Plain Sight, Erich Joachimsthaler explains how you can spot opportunities that too often are overlooked. The book introduces the demand-first innovation and growth (DIG) model that shows how to become an unbiased observer of people’s consumption and usage behaviors. Refining this skill helps companies generate organic growth through new products, services, solutions, and experiences that truly enhance peoples’ lives.
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