Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them

by Bill Davidson

Book Overview

"Breakthrough" - Das Ziel dieses Buches ist einfach: Es will F?hrungskr?ften dabei helfen, ihre Teams zu einzigartiger Leistung anzuspornen und dem Unternehmen aussergew?hnliche Ergebnisse zu bescheren.

Indem F?hrungskr?fte ein gro angelegtes, scheinbar unrealistisches Ziel setzen - kein Ziel, das leicht erreichbar ist - k?nnen sie die St?rke, die Motivation und die Zusammenarbeit im Team f?rdern, um dieses unrealistisch erscheinende Ziel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471454400
• ISBN13: 9780471454403
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

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1. Pursue outrageous objectives 2. Focus on the future 3. Place an emphasis on the customer and a secondary emphasis on cost reduction 4. Emphasis process improvement over improvement of existing activities 5. Use advanced technology 6. Focus on core initiatives that span the enterprise 7. Use human resources in new and creative ways 8. Identify and exploit growth opportunities. 9. Progressive : Innovated with the Progressive Automated Claims Management system (PACMAN); spent $30 million; reduced claim cycle time from 42 days to 6 days. 10. CR England : Implemented the OmniTracks Satellite system for 1,400 vehicles; the system allowed two communication; installed EDI for invoicing reducing cost from $5 to 15 cents per invoice; electronic scheduling allows delivery schedules within a two-hour window 98 percent of the time; maintenance innovation has increased truck mileage, 1,000 miles per month. 11. American Standard: Reduced inventory by using demand flow technology focusing on make-to-order production model. The company goal was to free up $500 million in cash by doubling inventory turns; and implemented a debt-service payments. 12. Country wide: Creates a new division to market home loans for customers. Countrywide increased loans twenty fold in four years, to $32 billion in volume. Countrywide reduce loan time to minutes from historical times of 40 to 42 days. Competitive pricing for low risk customers won business; reduced transactions cost to $748 against industrial average of $2,357.

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A Good Read!

This book aims to show CEOs how to achieve the impossible. Based on a study of 70 companies that managed to accomplish incredibly ambitious goals, it offers a straightforward and, for the most part, lucid set of guiding principles to reach breakthrough success. Author Bill Davidson anchors his prescription in the experiences of real companies and illustrates each point with copious anecdotes. Although he strays now and then into the jargon of the academic tribe, these digressions are rare and excusable. His case histories and tactical advice offer something of value to every CEO or senior manager. We recommend this book to executives whose companies are trapped in strategic dead-ends and desperate to blast out, or to executives who would rather act before a crisis really blossoms.

Breakthrough

Breakthrough is an outstanding book. Davidson gives first-hand experiences with numerous successful breakthrough companies and synthesizes practical principles on how to craft and achieve the "Outrageous Objectives" of your company's next success cycle. I disagree with the reader below. While Good to Great is also an excellent book, Breakthrough provides deeper insights into the essential ingredients of breakthrough and gives more valuable, real world examples to illustrate them.

Breakthrough

This book contains an extraordinary amount of very valuable material in a short and readable format. There are several new ideas in here that capture critical emerging trends in management. The idea of enterprise strategy, and the leadership model that goes with it, is a key, contrarian take on what works in the world of business. The depth of research underlying thebook gives great weight to what might otherwise be dismissed because it challenges our prevailing assumptions. There are manypowerful examples descibed in detail, and the author brings you inside a number of fascinating organizations, with a close-up, real-time view of leaders in action. There are also two very useful frameworks - one for strategy formulation includes some new thinking on the difference between segments, niches and mainstsream markets that sheds new light on strategic positioning. The author summarizes the experience of dozens of successful breakthrough companies in an AIM, Ready, Fire framework that captures their best practices. The final chapter on leadership also gives new thoughts on what it takes to lead a breakthrough company.