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OUTSMART!
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OUTSMART! HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR COMPETITORS CAN’T
J I M
C H A M P Y
© 2008 by James A. Champy Publishing as FT Press Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Company and product names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Printed in the United States of America
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First Printing March 2008 ISBN-10: ISBN-13:
0-13-235777-1 978-0-13-235777-7
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Champy, James, 1942Outsmart! : how to do what your competitors can’t / Jim Champy. p. cm. ISBN 0-13-235777-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Competition--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Success in business--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.
HD41.C463 2008 658.4’09--dc22 2007045693
This book is dedicated to my father, who was my first teacher in business.
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O U T S M A RT !
CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .x Chapter 1
It’s a Smart, Smart, Smart, Smart World . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Chapter 2
Compete by Seeing What Others Don’t: How Sonicbids Spotted a $15 Billion Market . . . . . . 20
Chapter 3
Compete by Thinking Outside the Bubble: MinuteClinic Delivers Healthcare Retail . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 4
Compete by Using All You Know: Basics Are Blazing at Smith & Wesson . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 5
Compete by Changing Your Frame of Reference: How Shutterfly Saw the Bigger Picture . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 6
Compete by Doing Everything Yourself: S.A. Robotics—Reaching Into Every Detail . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 7
Compete by Tapping the Success of Others: Jibbitz Wins by Riding a Croc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Chapter 8
Compete by Creating Order Out of Chaos: Partsearch Finds the Item You N