Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win, Foreword by Clay Christensen
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Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win, Foreword by Clay Christensen

Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win, Foreword by Clay Christensen


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Winner of the Shingo Prize for Research and Professional Publication, 2009How can companies perform so well that their industry counterparts are competitors in name only? Although they operate in the same industry, serve the same market, and even use the same suppliers, these “rabbits” lead the race and, more importantly, continually widen their lead. In Chasing the Rabbit, Steven J. Spear describes what sets high-velocity, market-leading organizations apart and explains how you can lead the pack in your industry. Spear examines the internal operations of dominant organizations, including Toyota, Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, the US Navy's Nuclear Power Program, and top-tier teaching hospitals--organizations operating in vastly differing industries, but which share one thing in common: the skillful management of complex internal systems that generates constant, almost automatic self-improvement at rates faster, durations longer, and breadths wider than anyone else musters. As a result, each enjoys a level of profitability, quality, efficiency, reliability, and agility unmatched by rivals. Chasing the Rabbit shows how to: Build a system of “dynamic discovery” designed to reveal operational problems and weaknessesAttack and solve problems at the time and in the place where they occur, converting weaknesses into strengths Disseminate knowledge gained from solving local problems throughout the company as a whole Create managers invested in the process of continual innovation Whatever kind of company you operate--from technology to finance to healthcare--mastery of these four key capabilities will put you on the fast track to operational excellence, where you will generate faster, better results using less capital and fewer resources. Apply the lessons of Steven J. Spear's and leave the competition in the dust.

Table of Contents:
1. Why We Need an Operations-Based Model of Competition 2. Competing through Capabilities + “Lean Manufacturing” and Its Discontents) 3. Managing Organizations to be the Ultimate Learning Machines: Capabilities of the Operationally Superlative 4. Capability 1: Designing Processes As Experiments to Reveal Problems 5. Capability 2: Solving Problems Experimentally to Generate Knowledge: Don’t Think, Do (Don’t Tweak) 6. Capability 3: Sharing Knowledge through Collaborative, Experimental Problem-Solving 7. Capability 4: Developing People through Coached Problem-Solving 8. Getting Started—Creating a Context Conducive to Experimental Learning

About the Author :
Steven J. Spear, four-time winner of the Shingo Prize and recipient of the McKinsey Award, is a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780071499880
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Spine Width: 37 mm
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0071499881
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 761 gr


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