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This teleconference explores strategies for managing organizational change and adapting to today's workplace realities. It discusses the need for innovation, the impact of technology, the importance of brand leadership, and the challenges posed by global competition and the internet.
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Distinct or … ExtinctTom PetersTeleconference2000Arlington Texas16 August 2000
Defeated Before The Starter’s Gun!“Track 4: Managing Organization Change (Helping Tired and Overworked Professionals with Today’s Workplace Realities)”
Pentium III 800MHz: $42,893.00/#Hermes Scarf: $1,964.29Saving Private Ryan on DVD: $874.75Mercedes-Benz: $18.98Hot-rolled steel: $0.19Source: Fortune (3.20.00)
An Age of Passion:1 Year = 1.5 Wal*Marts03.27.99: $167B03.27.00: $555BP.S.: Wal*Mart = #8 in 2000
No Wiggle Room!“Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.” Nicholas Negroponte
Just Say No …“I don’t intend to be known as the ‘King of the Tinkerers.’ ”CEO, large financial services company (New York, 5-99)
“There’s going to be a fundamental change in the global economy unlike anything we have had since the cavemen began bartering.”Arnold Baker, Chief Economist, Sandia National Laboratories
“There is probably going to be more confusion in the business world in the next decade than there has been in any decade in history.”Steve Case (2-00)
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
“The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is not likely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and financially, yes, but not structurally and economically.”Peter Drucker, Business 2.0 (08.00)
John Roth’s Dogma [Nortel]1. Our strategies must be tied toleading-edge customers on the attack.2. Time cannot be sacrificedfor better quality, lower cost, or even better decisions.3. It doesn’t matter whether you develop or acquire leading technology.Our job is to provide the technology and products our customers need.4. Success is achieved byleading change, not waiting for it.5. We are paranoid about our leadership– willing to cannibalize our own products to maintain our edge.Source: Abridged from The Wall Street Journal (07.25.00)
“It used to be that the big ate the small. Now the fast eat the slow.”Geoff Yang, IVP/ (Institutional Venture Partners)
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand OutsidePart III: Brand Leadership
Forget > Learn“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”Dee Hock
“When asked to name just one big merger that had lived up to expectations, Leon Cooperman, former cochairman of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Policy Committee, answered: ‘I’m sure there are success stories out there, but at this moment I draw a blank.’ ”Mark Sirower, The Synergy Trap
“Acquisitions are about buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets. There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
“Our ideal acquisition is a small startup that has a great technology product on the drawing board that is going to come out in six to twelve months. We buy the engineers and the next generation product. …” John Chambers, Cisco
Pentium III 800MHz: $42,893.00/#Cisco Engineer: $19,000.00Hermes Scarf: $1,964.29Saving Private Ryan on DVD: $874.75Mercedes-Benz: $18.98Hot-rolled steel: $0.19Source: Fortune (3.20.00)
The Gales of Creative Destruction+29M = -44M + 73M+4M = +4M - 0M
Paradox ReduxAtlanta: +113,600 = #1 metro areaLayoffs [major]: BellSouth, Lockheed, Coca-Cola
Headline: “Bank of America to Cut … 10,000 Jobs”“Middle-level and senior managersare expected to be the principal targets of the job cutbacks.”Source: The New York Times (07.29.2000)
The Pincer 5“Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition“White Collar Robots”THE INTERNET![E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]Global Outsourcing[E.g.: India, Mexico]Speed!!
“A bureaucrat is an expensive microchip.”Dan Sullivan, consultant and executive coach
Cadence Network = Whatever“Business process outsourcer”Electric, gas, telecom, waste disposal “stuff”E.g.: Winn Dixie, Blockbuster, Limited, Papa John’sSource: Forbes.com [07.00]
[“Don’t own nothin’ if you can help it. If you can, rent your shoes.”F.G.]
Cisco, Dell =Brand-owning companies who sell Customer SatisfactionSource: David Schneider & Grady Means, MetaCapitalism
“More and more companies these days want to be like Cisco. They want to focus on their core businessand outsource all the superfluous stuff, like human resources, procurement and accounting.”Forbes.com, 07.17.00, on ASPs
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.”
Brand InsideBrand Work: The Professional Service Firm Model & The WOW Project
Why are there no books on how to create a “Cool, Rocking, WOW-producing Finance Department”?
Welcome to the Y2K New Orleans Jazz and Real Cool Purchasing Dudes Festival!
Every job done in W.C.W. is also done “outside” … for profit!
PSF 1.0Department Headto …Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.