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Let Go To Grow: Escaping The Commodity Trap
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 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.
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 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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202 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 2005
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June 29, 2021
Primer for Mature Businesses and Good Introduction to Component Business Models - Stanford, an IBM executive, and Taylor provide a context for mature businesses to consider "spinning off" or "letting go" of their commoditizing aspects to pursue growth.
They provide a good introduction to a component business model as a means to use to help with such considerations. Namely, the description of all the activities a business performs as "components" helps in identifying those to focus on and where to put less emphasis and / or to outsource. Their whole treatment provides a basic explanation and case for benefit to be derived from use of fundamental business "building blocks," i.e. a simple business architecture. They discuss the advantages of such an approach in developing a business platform for growing the business and practical implementation aspects such as center of excellence formation, governance and technology considerations.
Some other books that relate here include Weill and Ross's IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain , Malone's Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook (The MIT Press) , Hagel's The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion and Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization .
Within the book, cases from companies ranging from FedEx, GE, P&G, and UPS to Amazon, Cemex, eBay, and Li and Fung provide useful illustrations. The authors allude to adoption of these practices by IBM in its transformation.
They provide a good introduction to a component business model as a means to use to help with such considerations. Namely, the description of all the activities a business performs as "components" helps in identifying those to focus on and where to put less emphasis and / or to outsource. Their whole treatment provides a basic explanation and case for benefit to be derived from use of fundamental business "building blocks," i.e. a simple business architecture. They discuss the advantages of such an approach in developing a business platform for growing the business and practical implementation aspects such as center of excellence formation, governance and technology considerations.
Some other books that relate here include Weill and Ross's IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain , Malone's Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook (The MIT Press) , Hagel's The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion and Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization .
Within the book, cases from companies ranging from FedEx, GE, P&G, and UPS to Amazon, Cemex, eBay, and Li and Fung provide useful illustrations. The authors allude to adoption of these practices by IBM in its transformation.
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