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Outsmart

Outsmart: How to do what your competitors cant by Jim Champy

How to do what your competitors can't

2008 Jim Champy

Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Outsmart!he’s doing it again. This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of some of today’s best “high velocity” companies, he identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace. You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs.

 

How to reignite growth by…

•   Seeing what others don’t

•   Breaking free of mental legacies

•   Using all you know

•   Changing your frame of reference

•   Tapping others’ successes

•   Creating order out of chaos

•   Simplifying complexity

•   Doing everything yourself

 

There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

 

sharkgeist: stay fresh, keep moving

Its not for lack of ideas and innovation that companies can't accomplish consistent, persistent growth. It's not how many ideas you own, its which ideas you plan on developing into products that matters. Only when the right ideas are married to the right business plan that value is created.