First and fast : outpace your competitors, lead your markets, and accelerate growth /
For the past 30 years, business leaders have been exhorted to move faster and adopt a "ready, fire, aim" approach to the growth of their business. As the level of change and turbulence increases in all markets, all organizations must adapt--quickly!--or risk decline and decay. But what are...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Business Expert Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Strategic management collection.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Are you fast or irrelevant?
- The decline and fall of Nokia
- What's driving the need for speed?
- Why are companies still too slow?
- Shifting focus from perfection to pace
- 2. Creating a high-speed, high-growth culture
- Avoiding the cultural danger zone
- Act like a start-up and adopt a challenger mind-set
- The cultural traffic jam: the seven most likely roadblocks
- The critical role of the "sprinter-in-chief": Richard Baker puts "the chemists" back into boots
- 3. Organizing for speed and agility
- The power of simplicity in a complex world
- Destroying silos, accelerating growth
- Decision making on the run
- Turning your organization on a dime
- 4. Rapid-fire strategy
- Strategy ain't what it used to be
- The 3Rs of strategy
- Organizing for rapid-fire strategy
- The 6-day strategy: why spend 6 months developing a 1-year plan?
- 5. Fast-lane innovation
- Releasing the innovation brakes
- Building up speed: focusing innovation on what won't change
- Shifting gear: acceleration through action
- 8 accelerators for fast-lane innovation
- 6. Implementing at pace
- The speed of light at the center of the sun
- Focus, focus, focus: you can't chase two hares
- Lead by results: the inverse relationship between detailed planning and performance management
- Think big, start small: Tesco Express versus Fresh & Easy
- Remember, delivery is the day job: the secret to rapid transformation
- 7. Allowing your customers to navigate
- Steve Jobs was an error: the customer's not always right, but that's the way to bet
- Who to implore and who to ignore
- How to work with customers to accelerate innovation
- Customer navigation in action: embedding customer focus at DFS
- 8. Sustaining success and kicking on
- How fast is too fast?
- Moving onto new heights
- Seven immediate steps you can take today
- Index.