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The Third Annual Conference on Customer Service Management in Orlando on November 13, 2000. Explore the future of business, talent, and brand leadership.
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Tom Peters2000:Distinct or … ExtinctThe Third annual Conference onCustomer Service ManagementOrlando/13November2000
NOW THAT’S B-I-G!“The period 2000-2002 will bring the single greatest change in worldwide economic and business conditions since we came down from the trees.”David Schneider & Grady Means, MetaCapitalism
Forget>“Learn”“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”Dee Hock
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand OutsidePart III: Brand Leadership
“AssetlessCompany”John Bryan, CEO, on selling all Sara Lee’s manufacturing
RR on “Assetless” [J.B.] Sara Lee“The most profitable businesses in the future will act as knowledge brokers, linking insights into what’s available with insights into the customer’s individual needs and preferences.”
Advance ParadigmData on 165,000,000 prescriptions per year; docs and insurers have access to recordsReduces med errors; saves $2.88 per scrip [prescribing errors]; docs save $14,000 per year in review timeRev in ’99: $2B; $477M in ’98Source: Business Week (09.00)
“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
“If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed, and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much either.”Michael Goldhaber, Wired
“When land was the scarce resource, nations battled over it. The same is happening now for talented people.”Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
“We have transitioned from an asset-based strategy to a talent-based strategy.”Jeff Skilling, COO, Enron
“We believe companies can increase their market cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve Macadam at Georgia Pacificchanged 20 of his 40 box plant managers to put more talented, higher paid managers in charge.He increased profitability from $25 million to $80 million in 2 years.”Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
“Diversity defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century. Mighty is the mongrel. … The hybrid is hip. The impure, the mélange, the adulterated, the blemished, the rough, the black-and-blue, the mix-and-match – these people are inheriting the earth. Mixing is the new norm. Mixing trumps isolation. It spawns creativity, nourishes the human spirit, spurs economic growth and empowers nations.”G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge
“Talented people are less likely to wait their turn. We used to view young people as trainees; now they are authorities.Arguably this is the first time the older generation can – and must – leverage the younger generation very early in their careers.”Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
The New Economy …Shout goodbye to “command and control”!Shout goodbye to hierarchy!Shout goodbye to “knowing one’s place”!
Women’s Stuff =New Economy MatchImprov skillsRelationship-centricLess “rank consciousness”Self determinedTrust sensitive IntuitiveNatural “empowerment freaks” [less threatened by strong people]Intrinsic [motivation] > Extrinsic
“TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ: Who manages more things at once? Who puts more effort into their appearance? Who usually takes care of the details? Who finds it easier to meet new people? Who asks more questions in a conversation? Who is a better listener? Who has more interest in communication skills? Who is more inclined to get involved? Who encourages harmony and agreement? Who has better intuition? Who works with a longer ‘to do’ list? Who enjoys a recap to the day’s events? Who is better at keeping in touch with others?”Source: Selling Is a Woman’s Game: 15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men, Nicki Joy & Susan Kane-Benson
“Boys are trained in a way that will make them irrelevant.”Phil Slater
Pine-paneled Office Address: 1 Big Man Plaza Secretary Suit Formal Rank conscious Pretense (“Failures are for fools.”) I love “Yes men” Self-contained Seat 9B, UA233 Address: Rick@Corp.com Typing: 60 WPM Casual M-F Approachable We are a HOT Team Screwing up is as normal as breathing I love Misfits! I love partners New Economy: Was-Is
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand OutsidePart III: Brand Leadership
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similarpeople, with similar educational backgrounds, working in similar jobs, coming up with similarideas, producing similar things, with similarprices and similarquality.”Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale,Funky Business
“We make over three new product announcements a day. Can you remember them? Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina
“Our strategies must be tied to leading edge customers on the attack. If we focus on the defensive customers, we will also become defensive.”John Roth, CEO, Nortel
Brand OutsideStrategy 2:Use E-Commerce toRe-inventEverything!
Tomorrow Today: Cisco!90% of $20B (=$50M/day)75% mfg. outsourced; 50% of orders routed to supplier who ships directGross margin: 65%; Net margin: 28%Savings in service and support from customerself-management:$500M
Enron: $400B in annual on-line trading transactions. [50% total bus.] Much stimulated by the Web per se.Schwab: $25B per week in asset transactions [80% of trades] [Transition to e.Schwab: Rev. fell, then quickly doubled]
Tomorrow Today: Cisco!90% of $20B; save $550MC.Sat e >> C.Sat HCustomer Engineer Chat Rooms/CollaborativeDesign ($1B “free” consulting) (45,000 customer problems a week solved via customer collaboration)
Anne Busquet/ American ExpressNot: “Age of the Internet”Is: “Age of Customer Control”
“The Web enables total transparency.People with access to relevant information are beginning to challenge any type of authority. The stupid, loyal and humble customer, employee, patient or citizen is dead.”Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
“One cannot be tentative about this. Excuses like ‘channel conflict’ or ‘marketing and sales aren’t ready’ cannot be allowed. Delay and you risk being cut out of your own market, perhaps not by traditional competitors but by companies you never heard of 24 months ago.”Jack Welch [07.00/Forbes.com]
WebWorld = EverythingWeb as a way to run your business’ innardsWeb as connector for your entire supply-demand chainWebas “spider’s web” which re-conceives the industryWeb/B2B as ultimate wake-up call to “commodity producers”Web as the scourge of slack, inefficiency, sloth, bureaucracy, poor customer dataWeb as an Encompassing Way of LifeWeb = Everything (P.D. to after-sales)Web forces you to focus on what you do bestWebas entrée, at any size, to World’s Best at Everything as next door neighbor
Message:eCommerce is not a technology play! It is a relationship, partnership, organizational and communications play, made possible by new technologies.
Message:There is no such thing as an effective B2B or Internet-supply chain strategy in a low-trust, bottlenecked-communication, six-layer organization.
“Banking is necessary. Banks are not.”Dick Kovacevich, Wells Fargo
Brand OutsideStrategy 3:Fighting Back viaSystemsIntegration!
B2B1999 – 2004: 50X2004: $7.4TSource: GartnerGroup (per Reuters 1-26-00)