Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap: Escaping the Commodity Trap (paperback) - Softcover

Taylor, Dave

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9780132564076: Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap: Escaping the Commodity Trap (paperback)

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ISBN 10: 0132564076 ISBN 13: 9780132564076

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

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In Let Go To Grow , IBM senior executive Linda Sanford and long-time entrepreneur Dave Taylor show exactly how to do that.

Sanford and Taylor systematically review the On Demand Business processes, people strategies, technology shifts, governance practices, and leadership vision you'll need to maximize profitability in tomorrow's business environment. They introduce powerful new techniques for balancing and measuring three key drivers of top-line growth: productivity, collaboration, and innovation.

You'll discover how to gain unprecedented flexibility by constructing your business around components, platforms, and standardized interfaces. The authors demonstrate how to expand your growth space, liberate your cost structures, and build profits–not just revenues. Drawing on the experiences of companies ranging from GE to eBay, Toyota to IBM, this book focuses on practical implementation, offering a proven, start-to-finish approach for moving from vision to results.

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Learn HOW TO provide information needed for growth in today's economy -- for employees, managers, and customers -- On Demand.
From business luminaries that have made -- On Demand -- a reality!
Readers learn how to go from a defensive, cost-dominated struggle, that is unpredictable and uncontrollable to a NEW environment where speed, flexibility, and adaptability are the possible.
Many case studies to clearly illustrate how to not only survive but grow today and in the future... This is a business book that shows the reader how to look at their business issues and gain an advantage over their competitors by embracing IBM's On Demand strategy. On Demand is really just a new way of looking at what is happening in today's markets due to computer technology and faster information delivery. Companies are leaping over competition by embracing the technology changes and dealing with their customers and suppliers not in a linear fashion but as a "value space". It is no longer a supply chain. Chain implies linearity. Instaneous need fulfillment is the answer. Those suppliers who can deliver will gain share and this book talks about the internal personnel issues, management issues and business culture issues necessary to make it happen. On Demand is now gaining strength and acceptance in the market. You can see it in the amazing push to grid computing that we are seeing now, the outsourcing phenomenon, and other issues. It is IBM's theme for the foreseeable future.

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