Today on Sterling Performance, our management blog from BNET UK, you'll want to check out Joanna Higgins' interview with management guru Jim Champy, who has a new book out, called 'Outsmart.' The book is based entirely on devil-in-the-details-type case studies -- a refreshing break from abstract theory....
If author Jim Champy's 1994 'Re-engineering the Corporation' was a manifesto for change in 1994, his series of new titles, starting with 'Outsmart!', offers a glimpse into a new and promising future for business. "Outsmarting the competition requires more than intelligence, experience and business sense," he writes....
"My friend Peter Drucker, the late, great, management thinker, was famous for declaring in the fairly peaceful 1980s: 'Chaos is an opportunity, not a threat'," says business guru Jim Champy in his new book, 'Outsmart!' Business is more complex and demanding thanks to the credit crunch, but...
COLLABORATION. THAT'S THE ONE word description of the rapidly evolving business practice that increasingly defines success for automotive suppliers. Some Tier-One suppliers, such as Michael J. Burns, chairman and CEO of Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, describe the emerging need for collaboration as an...
Jim Champy's in an ebullient mood. The reason? His new book, ‘Outsmart!', has reinvigorated his optimism about business. Made up almost entirely of case studies, it tracks the success strategies of a group of diverse and dynamic companies that all boast double or triple-digit growth rates over the past...
Online bookstore All Top Books has done a little survey for BNET on where it sells the most business books in the UK and what they are buying. The south east of England's by far the biggest business buyer, accounting for 40 per cent of All Top...
Is five years enough time to turn around a business? Because that's all the time most CEOs will be given, according to Booz & Co figures on the average tenure of chief executives worldwide. IDC's research director of consumer mobile, John Delaney, notes that this was enough...
