Book Description
Profit Patterns - Picasso changed the way we
look at art. Profit Patterns will change the way we look at
business.Picasso's work reflected the social and
technological changes that swept through the early twentieth
century. Equally pronounced changes are sweeping through
today's business landscape, often at breathtaking speed.
Profit Patterns provides a powerful discipline to see
order beneath the surface chaos. Pattern thinking helps
entrepreneurs, managers, investors, and key talent anticipate
the likely direction of changes even before they happen. It
reveals the economic meaning of these changes and provides
the tools to capitalize on them.
Based on groundbreaking research into over two hundred
companies in forty industries, from major industrial firms to
upstart competitors, Profit Patterns contains a set of ideas
and action steps that can be taken by you and your team.
Here's a sampling of what you'll find:
Practical STRATEGIC ideas:
Strategic Anticipation--the ability to "get it," to
spot an emerging opportunity and chart a path there before
the competition does.
Polarization--the winner-takes-all game, and why it's
spreading to more and more industries.
Mindshare--the importance of seizing and holding on to the
attention of key customers, investors, and talent.
Thirty Patterns: A repertoire of moves and countermoves to
help you understand and exploit the forces changing your
industry. This knowledge base of patterns will allow you to
harness the strategic learning of the past two decades,
eliminating the need to create strategies from scratch.
In-Depth Examples:
How Cisco Systems, Honeywell, Capital One, SAP, Staples,
Nokia, Dell Computer, Amazon.com, and Bang & Olufsen
detected patterns in their industries and put them to work
and, in many cases, developed an almost insurmountable lead
over their competitors.
A Workbook:
An aid to launching your own process of responding to change.
In today's turbulent and discontinuous business world,
it's no longer useful to analyze your industry in static,
conventional ways. Profit Patterns provides the means to act
before the ground shifts beneath you once again. It is the
mental operating system for winning when the rules of the
game change with such great frequency.
