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Tom Peters’ Y2002: The … Solutions Imperative.
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1. It’s the (OUR!) organization, stupid!2. Friction free! 3. No STOVEPIPES!4. “Stovepiping” is a F.O.—Firing Offense.5. ALL on the web! (ALL = ALL.)6. Open access!6. Project Managers rule! (E.g.: Control the purse strings and evals.)7. VALUE-ADDED RULES! (Services Rule.) (Experiences Rule.) (Brand Rules.)8. SOLUTIONS RULE! (We sell SOLUTIONS. Period. We sell PRODUCTIVITY & PROFITABILITY. Period.)9. Solutions = “Our ‘culture.’ ”10. Partner with B.I.C. (Best-In-Class). Period.
11. All functions contribute equally—IS, HR, Finance, Purchasing, Engineering, Logistics, Sales, Etc.12. Project Management can come from any function.13. WE ARE ALL IN SALES. PERIOD.14. We all invest in “wiring” the customer organization.15. WE ALL “LIVE THE BRAND.” (Brand = Solutions. That MAKE MONEY FOR OUR CUSTOMER- PARTNER.)16. We use the word “PARTNER” until we all want to barf!17. We NEVER BLAME other parts of our organization for screw-ups.18. WE AIM TO REINVENT THIS INDUSTRY!19. We hate the word-idea “COMMODITY.”
20. We believe in “High tech, High touch.”21. We are DREAMERS.22. We deliver . (PROFITS.) (CUSTOMER SUCCESS.)23. If we play the “SOLUTIONS GAME” brilliantly, no one can touch us!24. Our TEAM needs 100% I.C.s (Imaginative Contributors). This is the ULTIMATE “All Hands” affair!25. This is a hoot!
“While everything may be better, it is also increasingly the same.”Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness of Things,”The New York Times
“We make over three new product announcements a day. Can you remember them? Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina
“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
“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’ that they are now more or less identical.”Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
Dell’s OptiPlex FacilityBig Job: 6 to 8 hours.(80,000 per day)Parts Inventory:100square feet.
Cisco!90% of $20B (=$50M/day)Annual savings in service and support from customer self-management: $550M(P.S.: C.Sat e >> C.Sat h)
Secret Cisco: Community!Customer Engineer Chat Rooms/CollaborativeDesign ($1B “free” consulting) (45,000 customer problems a week solved via customer collaboration)
Welcome to D.I.Y. Nation:“Changes in business processes will emphasize self service. Your costs as a business go down and perceivedservice goes up because customers are conducting it themselves.”Ray Lane, Oracle
WebWorld = EverythingWeb as a way to run your business’s 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.
“Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet. Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an ebusiness.”Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins
Jargon Bath!Bureaucracy free …Systemically integrated …Internet intense …Knowledge based …Time and location free …“Instantly” responsive …Customer centric …Mass customization enabled.
Translation …Bureaucracy free = Flat org, no B.S.Systemically integrated = Whole supply chain tightly wired/ friction freeInternet intense = Do it all via the WebKnowledge based = Open accessTime and location free = Whenever, wherever“Instantly” responsive = Speed demonsCustomer centric = Customer calls the shotsMass customization enabled = Every product and service rapidly tailored to client requirements
“Supply Chain” 2000:“When Joe Employee at Company X launches his browser, he’s taken to Company X’s personalized home page. He can interact with the entire scope of Company X’s world – customers, other employees, distributors, suppliers, manufacturers, consultants. The browser – that is, the portal – resembles a My Yahoo for Company X and hooks into every network associated with Company X. The real trick is that Joe Employee, business partners and customers don’t have to be in the office. They can log on from a cell phone, Palm Pilot, pager or home office system.”Red Herring (09.2000)
The Real “New Economy”“Imagine a chess game in which, after every half dozen moves, the arrangement of the pieces on the board stays the same but the capabilities of the pieces randomly change. Knights now move like bishops, bishops like rooks … Technology does that. It rubs out boundaries that separate industries. Suddenly new competitors with new capabilities will come at you from new directions. Lowly truckers in brown vans become geeky logistics experts. …”Business 2.0 (9-10.2001)
The Real “New Economy”“Only a few times in history have interaction costs radically changed—one was the railroads, then the telegraph and telephone. We’re going through another one right now.”Jeff Skilling, Enron
“CRM has, almost universally, failed to live up to expectations.”Butler Group (UK)
CGE&Y (Paul Cole): “Pleasant Transaction” vs.“Systemic Opportunity.”“Better job of what we do today” vs.“Re-think overall enterprise strategy.”
“There’s no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”Lewis Carroll
I’net …… allows you to dream dreams you could never have dreamed before!
Suppose, just suppose, that the Web is a new world we’re just beginning to inhabit. We’re like the earlier European settlers in the United States, living on the edge of the forest. We don’t know what’s there and we don’t know exactly what we need to do to find out: Do we pack mountain climbing gear, desert wear, canoes, or all three? Of course while the settlers may not have known what the geography of the new world was going to be, they at least knew that there was a geography. The Web, on the other hand, has no geography, no landscape. It has no distance. It has nothing natural in it. It has few rules of behavior and fewer lines of authority. Common sense doesn’t hold here, and uncommon sense hasn’t yet emerged.” David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined
“Our military structure today is essentially one developed and designed by Napoleon.”Admiral Bill Owens, former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
From: Weapon v. WeaponTo:Org structure v. Org structure
Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive in ’87; 18 in ’87 F100; 18 F100 “survivors” underperformed the market by 20%; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market 1917 to 1987.S&P 500 from 1957 to 1997: 74 members of the Class of ’57 were alive in ’97; 12 (2.4%) of 500 outperformed the market from 1957 to 1997.Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market
“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop their industries.Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.”Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma
“A pattern emphasized in the case studies in this book is the degree to which powerful competitors not only resist innovative threats, but actually resist all efforts to understand them, preferring to further their positions in older products. This results in a surge of productivity and performance that may take the old technology to unheard of heights. But in most cases this is a sign of impending death.”Jim Utterback, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation
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
“Chivalry is dead. The new code of conduct is an active strategy of disrupting the status quo to create an unsustainable series of competitive advantages. This is not an age of defensive castles, moats and armor. It is rather an age of cunning, speed and surprise. It may be hard for some to hang up the chain mail of ‘sustainable advantage’ after so many battles. But hypercompetition, a state in which sustainable advantages are no longer possible, is now the only level of competition.”Rich D’Aveni, Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of Strategic Maneuvering
“Acquisitions are about buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets. There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
7 Rules for Leading/THRIVING in a Recession+1. It’s ALREADY too late.2. Show up & tell the truth—CREDIBILITY rules.3. Kill with KINDNESS.4. Sharp pencils are imperative—but don’t forget that the CUSTOMER & our TALENT & RISKY INVESTMENTS are still our long-term Bread & Butter. 5. Everything’s different, everything’s the same—it’s the NEW ECONOMY, more than ever, stupid!6. “Use” the trauma to mount the bold initiatives you should have long before mounted: Flux =OPPORTUNITY.7. We’re in a War of Organizational Models—from retail to the Pentagon. IDEAS MATTER MOST.
The Pincer 51. “Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition2. “White Collar Robots”3. THE INTERNET![E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]4. Global Outsourcing[E.g.: India, Mexico]5.Speed!!
“So what does Drexel’s demise tell us about Enron? Companies may die (or commit suicide), but ideas—if they’re any good—survive.” James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
Every job done in W.C.W. is also done “outside” …for profit!
Answer: PSF![Professional Service Firm]Department Headto …Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.
“P.S.F.”: SummaryH.V.A. Projects (100%)Pioneer ClientsWOW Work (see below)Hot “Talent” (see below)“Adventurous” “culture”Proprietary Point of View (Methodology)W.W.P.F. (100%)/Outside Clients (25%++)
(1) Translate ALL departmental activities into discrete W.W.P.F. “Products.”(2) 100% go on the Web.(3)Non-awesome are outsourced (75%??).(4)Remaining “Centers of Excellence” are retained & leveraged to the hilt!
