Inspire!

by Jim Champy

Published 18 March 2009

8 POWERFUL WAYS TO INSPIRE TODAY'S TOUGH CUSTOMERS IN TOUGH TIMES AND MAKE THEM STICK!

"With Jim Champy's well-proven gift for keen management analysis, today's essential notions of business transparency, channel and customer alignment, and enduring cultural values become palpable, memorable, and-most important-usable."

Alan Spoon, Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

"If you love the game of business, you'd be hard pressed to find a book with more `good moves' per page than INSPIRE!"

Paal Gisholt, President and CEO, SmartPak

"Full of insightful ideas, this book is for those who like winning, who embrace innovation, and who wish to transform how they lead. It is not for the defenders of the status quo."

Michael Dowling, President and CEO, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System

"INSPIRE! provides `food for thought' and insightful guidance for all companies. This is particularly important in today's economy where even established companies are looking for ways to maintain the growth they have enjoyed in better times."

Chiquita White, Section Head, Product Development, Procter & Gamble

Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Inspire!, the second book in a series about what's new and really works in business, he takes on the challenge of inspiring customers-even in tough times. In an era of commoditization and ever less loyal customers, this book shows how to keep customers coming back.

Drawing on dozens of original case studies from companies in a variety of industries, new and old, Champy reveals how to define a consistent value proposition your customers will be passionate about-and will stay passionate about. You'll learn how to engage a new generation of customers who value transparency and authenticity above all...how to reinvigorate your company in the face of brutally tough and creative competition...how to go beyond mere marketing campaigns to lead crusades customers want to join.

Once again, Jim Champy has given businesses actionable solutions to one of the most challenging problems they currently face: making customers stick.

How to reignite customer loyalty by...

* Bringing authenticity to everything you do

* Creating new products that reflect the best of what you really are

* Delivering new value based on convenience, simplicity, and honesty

* Nurturing your mystique

* Choosing the right channel partners

* Doing well by doing good

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Outsmart!

by Jim Champy

Published 1 January 2008

“Champy’s engaging prose, fascinating success stories, penetrating reflections, and provocative challenges to the status quo capture your full attention from the first page to the last and leave your mind swirling with new thoughts about how to exploit opportunities in a very different world.”
– Ray Stata, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc.

 

“To outsmart or be outsmarted, that is the question in modern business. Jim Champy has found the answer, in fact many answers, by looking inside amazingly successful companies. And he tells their simple stories in this book that is so delightfully short it can be read on one flight.”

– Dr. Robert “Bob” Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

 

“In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies that have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested, and reproducible in today’s global marketplace.”

– Denis A. Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc.

 

“This book shows how to spot opportunities in a world that looks, at times,
like everything is done. Jim has strung together nine pearls that reveal the essence of entrepreneurship.”
– Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks, Inc.

 

Author ofReEngineering the Corporation
A New York Times Best Seller & More than 3 Million Copies Sold

 

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 byconsistently 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.

 

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