Outsmart! provides a concise, fast-paced look at how companies can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting the competition.

Hardcover, 208pp

FT Press, March 2008

ISBN-13: 9780132357777

Barnes & Noble online price: $18.39

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SYNOPSIS

Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now he’s doing it again. In Outsmart! Champy reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years.

Drawing on the strategies of some of today’s best “high-velocity” companies, he identifies eight powerful ways to compete in even the roughest marketplace. You’ll discover how to find distinctive market positions and sustainable advantages in products, services, delivery methods, and unexpected customers with unexpected needs.

Learn ways to reignite growth through the following:

• Seeing what others don’t
• Using all you know
• Changing your frame of reference
• Thinking outside the bubble, not the box
• Tapping others’ successes
• Creating order out of chaos
• Simplifying complexity
• Doing everything yourself

“In this remarkably readable and incisive book, Jim Champy provides case studies of fast growing, innovative companies who have created and implemented successful strategies that are practical, market tested and reproducible in today’s global marketplace. There are a wealth of lessons to be learned and applied from the experiences detailed here — insights that can help create sustainable competitive advantages and make the difference between dramatic growth and stasis.This timely contribution to the business press can be read in a few hours, and its lessons will endure for years.”
-Denis Bovin, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Bear Sterns & Co., Inc.