Tom Peters

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Tom Peters Re-Imagine!Business Excellence
in a Disruptive AgeNew York/03.09.2004
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Slides at tompeters.com
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All Bets Are Off.
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14 MILLION service jobs are in danger of being
shipped overseas The Dobbs Report/USNWR/11.03/r
e new UCB study
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There is no job that is Americas God-given
right anymore. Carly Fiorina/ HP/ 01.08.2004
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The world has arrived at a rare strategic
inflection point where nearly half its
populationliving in China, India and Russiahave
been integrated into the global market economy,
many of them highly educated workers, who can do
just about any job in the world. Were talking
about three billion people. Craig
Barrett/Intel/01.08.2004
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We are in a brawl with no rules.Paul Allaire
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2. The Destruction Imperative.
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Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987 39 members of the
Class of 17 were alive in 87 18 in 87 F100
18 F100 survivors underperformed the market by
20 just 2 (2), GE Kodak, outperformed the
market 1917 to 1987.SP 500 from 1957 to 1997
74 members of the Class of 57 were alive in 97
12 (2.4) of 500 outperformed the market from
1957 to 1997.Source Dick Foster Sarah
Kaplan, Creative Destruction Why Companies That
Are Built to Last Underperform the Market
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Good management was the most powerful reason
leading firms failed to stay atop their
industries. Precisely because these firms
listened to their customers, invested
aggressively in technologies that would provide
their customers more and better products of the
sort they wanted, and because they carefully
studied market trends and systematically
allocated investment capital to innovations that
promised the best returns, they lost their
positions of leadership.Clayton Christensen,
The Innovators Dilemma
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3. IS/ IT/ WebOn the Bus or Off the Bus.
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Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization
from the ground up. Most companies today are not
built to exploit the Internet. Their business
processes, their approvals, their hierarchies,
the number of people they employ all of that is
wrong for running an ebusiness.Ray Lane,
Kleiner Perkins
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Dawn Meyerreicks, CTO of the Defense Information
Systems Agency, made one of the most fateful
military calls of the 21st century. After 9/11
her office quickly leased all the available
transponders covering Central Asia. The
implications should change everything about U.S.
military thinking in the years ahead. The U.S.
Air Force had kicked off its fight against the
Taliban with an ineffective bombing campaign, and
Washington was anguishing over whether to send in
a few Army divisions. Donald Rumsfeld told Gen.
Tommy Franks to give the initiative to 250
Special Forces already on the ground. They used
satellite phones, Predator surveillance drones,
and GPS- and laser-based targeting systems to
make the air strikes brutally effective.In
effect, they Napsterized the battlefield by
cutting out the middlemen (much of the militarys
command and control) and working directly with
the real players. The data came in so fast that
HQ revised operating procedures to allow
intelligence analysts and attack planners to work
directly together. Their favorite tool,
incidentally, was instant messaging over a secure
network.Ned Desmond/Broadbands New Killer
App/Business 2.0/ OCT2002
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Case CRM
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CRM has, almost universally, failed to live up
to expectations. Butler Group (UK)
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No! No! No! FT The aim of CRM is to make
customers feel as they did in the pre-electronic
age when service was more personal.
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CGEY (Paul Cole) Pleasant Transaction vs.
Systemic Opportunity. Better job of what we do
today vs. Re-think overall enterprise strategy.
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4. The White Collar Revolution.
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Jeff Immelt 75 of admin, back room, finance
digitalized in 3 years.Source BW (01.02)
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Organizations will still be critically important
in the world, but as organizers, not
employers! Charles Handy
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Ford Vehicle brand owner (design, engineer,
and market, but not actually make)Source The
Company, John Micklethwait Adrian Wooldridge
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5. The PSF SolutionThe Professional Service
Firm Model.
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Sarah Daddy, what do you do?Daddy Im a
cost center.
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Answer PSF!Professional Service
FirmDepartment Head to Managing Partner,
HR IS, etc. Inc.
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6. The Heart of the Value Added Revolution PSFs
Unbound/ The Solutions Imperative.
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The surplus society has a surplus of similar
companies, employing similar people, with similar
educational backgrounds, coming up with similar
ideas, producing similar things, with similar
prices and similar quality.Kjell Nordström
and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business
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We make over three new product announcements a
day. Can you remember them? Our customers
cant!Carly Fiorina
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09.11.2000 HP bids 18,000,000,000for
PricewaterhouseCoopersconsulting business!
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These days, building the best server isnt
enough. Thats the price of entry.Ann
Livermore, Hewlett-Packard
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Gerstners IBM Systems Integrator of choice.
Global Services 35B. Pledge/99 Business
Partner Charter. 72 strategic partners, aim for
200. Drop many in-house programs/products.
(BW/12.01).
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UPS wants to take over the sweet spot in the
endless loop of goods, information and capital
that all the packages it moves
represent.ecompany.com/06.01 (E.g., UPS
Logistics manages the logistics of 4.5M Ford
vehicles, from 21 mfg. sites to 6,000 NA dealers)
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And
the Winners Are Televisions 12Cable TV
service 5Toys -10Child care 5Photo
equipment -7Photographers fees 3Sports
Equipment -2Admission to sporting event
3New car -2Car repair 3Dishes
flatware -1Eating out 2Gardening supplies
-0.1Gardening services 2Source
WSJ/05.16.03
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7. A World of Scintillating Experiences.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as
services are from goods.Joseph Pine James
Gilmore, The Experience Economy Work Is Theatre
Every Business a Stage
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Club Med is more than just a resort its a
means of rediscovering oneself, of inventing an
entirely new me. Source Jean-Marie Dru,
Disruption
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The Starbucks Fix Is on We have
identified a third place. And I really believe
that sets us apart. The third place is that place
thats not work or home. Its the place our
customers come for refuge.Nancy Orsolini,
District Manager
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Experience Rebel Lifestyle!What we sell is
the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress
in black leather, ride through small towns and
have people be afraid of him.Harley exec,
quoted in Results-Based Leadership
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WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
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The Experience LadderExperiences
ServicesGoods Raw Materials
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Duet Whirlpool washing machine to fabric
care system white goods a sea of
undifferentiated boxes 400 to 1,300 the
Ferrari of washing machines consumer They
are our little mechanical buddies. They have
personality. When they are running efficiently,
our lives are running efficiently. They are part
of my family. machine as aesthetic showpiece
laundry room to family studio / designer
laundry room (complements Sub-Zero refrigerator
and home-theater center.Source New York Times
Magazine/01.11.2004
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8. Trends Worth Trillion I Women Roar.
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?????????Home Furnishings 94Vacations 92
(Adventure Travel 70/ 55B travel
equipment)Houses 91D.I.Y. (major home
projects) 80Consumer Electronics 51 (66
home computers) Cars 68 (90)All consumer
purchases 83 Bank Account 89Household
investment decisions 67Small business
loans/biz starts 70Health Care 80
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91 women ADVERTISERS DONT UNDERSTAND US.
(58 ANNOYED.)Source Greenfield Online for
Arnolds Womens Insight Team (Martha Barletta,
Marketing to Women)
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Read This Book EVEolution The Eight Truths
of Marketing to WomenFaith Popcorn Lys
Marigold
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EVEolution Truth No. 1Connecting Your Female
Consumers to Each Other Connects Them to Your
Brand
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The Connection Proclivity in women starts
early. When asked, How was school today? a girl
usually tells her mother every detail of what
happened, while a boy might grunt, Fine.
EVEolution
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Women dont buy brands. They join
them.EVEolution
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2.6 vs. 21
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1. Men and women are different.2. Very
different.3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.4. Women
Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing in
common.5. Women buy lotsa stuff.6. WOMEN BUY
A-L-L THE STUFF.7. Womens Market Opportunity
No. 1.8. Men are (STILL) in charge.9. MEN ARE
TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.10.
Womens Market Opportunity No. 1.
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9. Trends Worth Trillion II Boomer Bonanza/
Godzilla Geezer.
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2000-2010 Stats18-44 -155 21(55-64
47)
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44-65 New Consumer Majority 45 larger
than 18-43 60 larger by 2010Source Ageless
Marketing, David Wolfe Robert Snyder
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The New Consumer Majority is the only adult
market with realistic prospects for significant
sales growth in dozens of product lines for
thousands of companies. David Wolfe Robert
Snyder, Ageless Marketing
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Baby-boomer Women The Sweetest of Sweet Spots
for Marketers David Wolfe and Robert Snyder,
Ageless Marketing
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507T wealth (70)/2T annual income50 all
discretionary spending79 own homes/40M credit
card users41 new cars/48 luxury cars610B
healthcare spending/74 prescription drugs5
of advertising targetsKen Dychtwald, Age
Power How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the
New Old
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Marketers attempts at reaching those over 50
have been miserably unsuccessful. No markets
motivations and needs are so poorly
understood.Peter Francese, founding publisher,
American Demographics
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10. Leading in Totally Screwed Up Times The
Passion Imperative.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de
facto, Jack)
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Successful Businesses Dozen Truths TPs
30-Year Perspective1. Insanely Great Quirky
Talent.2. Disrespect for Tradition.3. Totally
Passionate (to the Point of Irrationality) Belief
in What We Are Here to Do.4. Utter
Disbelief at the BS that Marks Normal Industry
Behavior.5. A Maniacal Bias for Execution and
Utter Contempt for Those Who Dont Get
It.6. Speed Demons.7. Up or Out. (Meritocracy
Is Thy Name. Sycophancy Is Thy Scourge.)8.
Passionate Hatred of Bureaucracy.9. Willingness
to Lead the Customer and Take the Heat
Associated Therewith. (Mantra Satan Invented
Focus Groups to Derail True Believers.)10.
Reward Excellent Failures. Punish Mediocre
Successes. 11. Courage to Stand Alone on Ones
Record of Accomplishment Against All the
Forces of Conventional Wisdom.12. A Crystal
Clear Understanding of Brand Power.
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If things seem under control, youre just not
going fast enough.Mario Andretti