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Distinct or … ExtinctTom Peters Seminar2000
Albany19 June 2000
An Age of Passion:1 Year = 1.5 Wal*Marts
03.27.99: $167B03.27.00: $555B
P.S.: Wal*Mart = #8 in 2000
It Makes John Chambers Smile!
“We have in our house, among two working parents, two teens and an 8-year-
old, five computers (both Mac and Windows), four cell phones, seven phone lines, two Palm Pilots, one DSL, two ISP
connections, a collection of personal domain names, a CD burner, a scanner
and one AOL account.”Michael Wolff, writer [as reported in New York 06.00]
Pentium III 800MHz: $42,893.00/#Hermes Scarf: $1,964.29
Saving Private Ryan on DVD: $874.75Mercedes-Benz: $18.98Hot-rolled steel: $0.19
Source: Fortune (3.20.00)
“Researchers say they have found a way to mate human cells with circuitry in a ‘bionic chip’ … The tiny device – smaller and thinner
than a strand of hair – combines a healthy human cell with an electronic circuitry chip.”
AP/AOL/02-00
No Wiggle Room!
“Incrementalism is innovation’s worst
enemy.” Nicholas Negroponte
Just Say No …
“I don’t intend to be known as the ‘King of the
Tinkerers.’ ”CEO, large financial services company
(New York, 5-99)
64/24
Goal?
Welcome to the Land of the True Believers!
“We have the ability to turn the economy upside down, to enhance lives, and to drive
civilization forward.”
Michael Saylor,MicroStrategy
“It means nothing less than the total
reinvention of this company.”
Jacques’ New New Ford
Ford + MSN CarPointFord + Yahoo!Ford + Oracle
Ford + HP/MCIWorldcomEtc.Etc.
“We are in a
brawl with no rules.”
Paul Allaire
S.A.V.
T.T.D.sThe next slide is the first of many
“T.T.D.” activities. I.e.: Things To Do. These are by and large shorthand forms of training exercises I use.
Also: Most of these T.T.D. slides have accompanying Notes.
(Click “View” to access.)Tom Peters
T.T.D./True or False:
“incrementalism”
VERSUS
“innovation”?
Notes Page• This is a daunting issue. There is no “right answer.”
But it merits constant, conscious debate. Consider the value of incremental change. [Kaizen, etc.] And discuss whether or not this thwarts “BIG” initiatives aimed at wholesale reinvention.
• Also: Consider … “Can we do both?” [I’m not sure.] P.S.: This crucial issue holds for Finance Departments as much as Product Divisions. And it holds for the smallest and newest of businesses! THIS DEBATE IS WORTH LOTS OF TIME! KEEP IT PRACTICAL!
Tom Peters Seminar2000
Brand Everything:Distinct or Extinct!
Structure
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside
Part III: Brand Leadership
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside
Part III: Brand Leadership
Forces @ Work I
The Destruction Imperative!
Forget > Learn
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”
Dee Hock
“It is generally much easier to kill an
organization than change it
substantially.” Kevin Kelly, Out of Control
“When asked to name just one big merger that had lived up to
expectations, Leon Cooperman, former cochairman of Goldman
Sachs’ Investment Policy Committee, answered: ‘I’m sure there are
success stories out there, but at this moment I draw a blank.’ ”
Mark Sirower, The Synergy Trap
Headlines 06.15.00: Your Call!
Bell Atlantic-GTE
vs.
Lucent
“Talent” and a $2T enterprise??????
“Acquisitions are about buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets. There is a big difference.”
Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
“Our ideal acquisition is a small startup that has a great technology product on the drawing board that is going to come out in six to twelve months. We buy the engineers and the next generation product. …” John Chambers, Cisco
Pentium III 800MHz: $42,893.00/#
Cisco Engineer: $19,000.00Hermes Scarf: $1,964.29
Saving Private Ryan on DVD: $874.75Mercedes-Benz: $18.98Hot-rolled steel: $0.19
Source: Fortune (3.20.00)
Dept. Head I = Sports G.M.
Dept. Head II = V.C.
G.M. = The Recruitment and Development of Top Talent.
[Period!]
V.C. = Bets on “Talent.” Bets on Projects. [Period!]
Silicon Valley Success [Failure?] Secrets
“Pursuit of risk”: 4 of 20 in V.C. portfolio go bust; 6 lose money; 6
do okay; 3 do well; 1 hits the jackpot
Source: The Economist
“R & D”
Intel’s venture fund: 275 investments, $8B
Source: Fast Company , eCompany
Net World!
Act now. Analyze later.
Avram Miller
[TP to Chain Owner …
“Do 5 deals before you go home!”]
And for the 6-Person Group??
Send one “Cool Dude/Dudette” out to find something Cool, work with a Cool Customer, etc. [The “Micro-
Skunkworks Strategy”]
“It used to be that the big
ate the small. Now the fast eat the slow.”Geoff Yang, IVP/ (Institutional
Venture Partners)
C.E.O. to
C.D.O.
The [New] Ge Way
DYB.com
The Gales of Creative Destruction
+29M = -44M + 73M
+4M = +4M - 0M
Brand Inside
Brand Org: Lean, Mean, Linked &
Electronic
108 X 5vs.
8 X 1*
* 540 vs. 8
And Now the Equivalent …
White Collar Revolution!
The Pincer 5
“Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition
“White Collar Robots”
THE INTERNET! [E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]
Global Outsourcing [E.g.: India, Mexico]
Speed!!
RR on “Assetless” [J.B.] Sara Lee
“The most profitable businesses in the future will act as knowledge brokers, linking insights into what’s available
with insights into the customer’s individual needs
and preferences.”
The “&-!!+#$% in the middle”*
Jim Clark on Healtheon/WebMD
* ’twixt docs, patients, insurers and providers; $275B of $400B in waste; source: Michael
Lewis, The New New Thing
[ Incidentally …
CEO Jeff ArnoldAge: 30
First Start-up: Age 24]
“This is the Age of Ageism: The real innovator’s dilemma isn’t ‘disruptive technologies;’ it’s
the relentless rise of the quasi-adolescents who wield them.”
Michael Schrage (06.00/Fortune)
“We want to be the air traffic controllers
of electrons.”Bob Nardelli,
GE Power Systems
So does Enron![et al.]
Buzzsaw.com
Builders, Owners, Architects, Contractors, Suppliers
$4T industry
5,300 commercial bldg. projects’ specs on-line; +70 per day
And …
e-Builder.com, BuildNet.com,
EqualFooting.com [et al.]
12/31/00 (per Newsweek 04.24.00)
75% of U.S. universities will have on-line offerings/ 5.8 million students
“Unbundling” profs’ jobs (star lecturer, facilitator)/ Repackage “content”
as multi-media “event”
AAUP is angry! (Good news!)
355 studies: Equal results! (and one teachers union study
that disagrees!)
These are …
L.A.D.T.I.R.S.*
*Life-and-death-total-industry-reinvention-struggles
Cemex and FDX!
And Stuff Like …
“For a dollar a month, an Ohio insurance company will rent you a GPS receiver to
install in your car. As part of your policy, it signals how often, when, and which highways you drive and into which
neighborhoods you go. The premium you pay reflects your actual driving risk.”
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
Brand Inside
Brand Work!
So what will be the Basic Building
Block of the New Org?
Why are there no books on how to create
a “Cool, Rocking, WOW-producing
Finance Department”?
New OrleansApril 2000
NAPM
You are the Rock Stars
of the B2B Age!
Welcome to the Y2K New Orleans Jazz
and Real Cool Purchasing Dudes
Festival!
Message: You are Re-invention Evangelists!
NAPM: Not “Purchasing”!NAPM: Not “Supply Chain Mgt.”
NAPM = TE/IR!*
*Total Enterprise/Industry
Reinvention!
ChicagoNovember 1999
SHRM
“support function” / “cost center” / “bureaucratic
drag”
or …
“Rock Stars of the ‘Age of Talent’ ”
Every job done in W.C.W. is also done
“outside” … for profit!
Credo
“WORK WORTH
PAYING FOR”
PSF 1.0
Department Head
to …
Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.
PSF 1.0*
Professional Service Firm Conversion Kit /
Release 1.0
*The Professional Service Firm50
The “7Ps” of PSF 1.0
Projects!Passion!
Provocation!Partnership!
Politics!Professionalism!
Performance!
C.I.O. to
C.E.F.R.N.S.*
*Chief Evangelist For
Really Neat Stuff
“How long does ‘culture change’
take?”
What Do I “Do” First?
One Minute Excellence!*
*Thomas Watson
Culture Change is not “Corporate.”Culture Change is not a “Program.”
Culture change does not take “Years.”Culture Change does not start “Today.”
Culture Change starts Right Now!Culture Change
Lives in the Moment!Culture Change is
Entirely in Your Hands!
Enter …
The WOW Project!*
*The Project50
“Reward excellent failures. Punish
mediocre successes.”
Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
But Does It Matter ????
“On time, on budget … who cares?”
anon. seminar participant (4/99)
“You really got to me. So many of our information technology projects take on a life of their own, and I know they’ll never end up as more than ‘mediocre successes.’ ”
CEO, F100 financial services company (10-98)
WOW Project Anatomy
I. Create!II. Sell!
III. Implement! IV. Exit!
Create/Reframers’ Rules:
Rule 1: Never accept an assignment as given!
Rule 2: You’re never so powerful as when you are “powerless”!Rule 3: Every “small” project contains the entire enterprise
DNA!
VFCJ “Strategy”
T.T.D.
Examine that “small”/ “annoying” project you’re
working on. Can it be re-cast as a WOW/ Culture Change
Project? What are the hidden assumptions about customers/
suppliers/ employees?
Notes Page
• I am adamant: Every project can be made into a “big deal” if your head is in the right place. So … now … COMPLETELY RE-INVENT THAT “SMALL” PROJECT YOU ARE WORKING ON! No bull! E.g.: What about a “Memorial Day Employee Picnic that signals a whole new attitude toward our staff”?
Measures
–WOW!–Beauty!–Raving Fans!–Impact!
“Every project we take on starts with a question:
How can we do what’s never been done
before?”Stuart Hornery, CEO, Lend Lease
WOW Project “Acid Test”
Can you explain it - with zest -
to your 14-year-old?
Sell, Sell, Sell!
Master “The Pitch”!
Repeat: “I am a salesperson!”
Read: Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
Implement/Culture of Prototyping
“Effective prototyping may be the most valuable core
competence an innovative organization can hope to
have.”
Michael Schrage
“You can’t be a serious innovator unless and until you are ready,
willing and able to seriously play. ‘Serious play’ is not an oxymoron;
it is the essence of innovation.”
Michael Schrage, Serious Play
Think about It!?
Innovation = Reaction to the Prototype
Michael Schrage
T.T.D./ Prototyper’s LawsDefine a small, practical test of something on a
page or less of text. Now.
Gather “found” materials … on the [very] cheap.
Find a/one partner-“customer” who’ll provide a test site.
Set a very tight deadline of about 5 days for the next concrete step.
Conduct the test! Debrief A.S.A.P.
Set the next test date. Now. [No more than 5 days hence.]
Notes Page
• The idea is to establish a “rhythm of prototyping” that defines every project.
T.T.D./ Secret No. 1: Forget “selling up”! Go horizontal: Find a (one!) “line” ally in “the Boonies”!
Secret No. 2: “Powerless” allies are Cool!Secret No. 3: Become a Prototyping
Maniac! Secret No. 4: Embrace Politics /
“Community Organizing”! Secret No. 5: Passion Rules! Get your
story in shape!
Notes Page
• Main Idea: YOU ARE NOT “POWERLESS.” Seek out allies in strange places … and get going! DO NOT WASTE TIME “SELLING UP.”
• Attitude: You are the Gandhi/King of your “mission.”
• So: IDENTIFY THE FOLKS YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH RE THAT INCREDIBLY COOL IDEA YOU HAVE!
K2K!
SOOOO … HOW MANY OF YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE
“BACK HOME” AT WORK ON NO-BALONEY …
WOW* PROJECTS!
* WOW = Will be remembered fondly/
bragged about 5+ years from now
Epitaph from Hell … Epitaph from Hell …
Joe T. Jones Joe T. Jones
1942 - 20001942 - 2000
HE WOULDA DONE SOME HE WOULDA DONE SOME
REALLY COOL STUFF REALLY COOL STUFF
BUT …BUT …
HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM! HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!
The greatest dangerfor most of us
is not that our aim istoo high
and we miss it,but that it is
too lowand we reach it.
Michelangelo
Characteristics of the “Also Rans”
“minimize risk” “respect the chain of command” “support the boss” “make budget”
Source: Fortune on “most admired global corporations” (10/26/98)
Consider: Are any of these four attributes
characteristic of those who “made the history books”?
T.T.D.: Now!– List all projects– Carefully describe a “WOW Outcome” for you
and the Client– Score (!) all projects on WOW, Beauty, Impact,
Raving Fan-hood– Pick one project with a high combined score– Draft a one-page New Description that
emphasizes WOW, Beauty, etc.– Circulate and edit … for three days – Reduce to 5 bullet points
Notes Page
•DO IT! •NOW!
[We are not trying to “WOW you up.”
We think you are/have WOW.
We are trying to give you permission to be WOW.]
1) Turn ignition key.2) Shift into drive.
3) Press foot firmly on the throat of mediocrity.
Source: Mercedes ad
Brand Inside
Brand You: Distinct …
or Extinct
DISTINCT … OR EXTINCT!
“If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either.”
Michael Goldhaber, Wired
Personal “Brand Equity” Evaluation– I am known for [2 to 3 things]; next year at this time I’ll
also be known for [1 more thing].– My current Project is challenging me …– New things I’ve learned in the last 90 days include …– My public “recognition program”
consists of …– Additions to my Rolodex in the last 90 days include …
–My resume is discernibly different from last year’s at this time …
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you
can create your own legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
T.T.D./Assignment
Construct a 1/8-page or 1/4-page ad for
Brand You … for the Yellow Pages
Notes Page
•THIS IS A BIG DEAL. TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. [“Yellow Pages ads” are the centerpiece of our formal Brand You training programs.]
[ T.T.D.: How About It?
Replace your current evaluation process with
Yellow Pages ads.]
Notes Page
• NO BULL! Some of our Clients have gone this far. And report stunning results. If you can’t do this formally, try it informally.
R.D.A.
Rate: 15%?, 25%?
Therefore: Formal “Investment
Strategy”/R.I.P.
“You must realize that how you invest your human capital matters as much as how you
invest your financial capital. Its rate of return determines your future options. Take a job for what it teaches you, not for what it pays. Instead of a potential employer asking, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’
you’ll ask, ‘If I invest my mental assets with you for 5 years, how much will they
appreciate? How much will my portfolio of career options grow?’ ”
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
T.T.D./Your R.I.P.
IS IT … FORMAL? IS IT ... WOW!?
Notes Page
• We think “R.I.P.s” are imperative! So … please take these two questions seriously and literally!
Seminar Y2K/Brand Inside
Message: Distinct … or
Extinct!
Bill Parcells’ World/ Brand You World!
BLAME NOBODY!EXPECT NOTHING!DO SOMETHING!
NY Post (9/99)
Women and new-economy
management …
The New Economy …
Shout goodbye to “command and control”!
Shout goodbye to hierarchy!
Shout goodbye to “knowing one’s place”!
Women’s Stuff = New Economy Match
Improv skillsRelationship-centric
Less “rank consciousness”Self determinedTrust sensitive
IntuitiveNatural “empowerment freaks” [less
threatened by strong people]Intrinsic [motivation] > Extrinsic
It’s Girls, Stupid!
1996: 8.4M women, 6.7M men in college (est: 9.2 to 6.9 in 2007); more women than men in
high-level math and science courses
More girls in student govt., honor societies; girls read more books, outperform boys in artistic and musical ability, study abroad in
higher numbers
Boys do rule: crime, alcohol, drugs, failure to do homework (4:1)
Source: The Atlantic Monthly (May2000)
“Boys are trained in a way that will make
them irrelevant.”
Phil Slater
Brand Inside
Brand Talent: The Great War for Talent
Issue Y2K
The Great War for Talent!
“When land was the scarce resource, nations battled
over it. The same is happening now for talented people.”
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
“The market’s being divided up right now. We’re in a
tough competition [with the U.S. and the U.K.] for
the best brains.”Gerhard Schroeder, on Germany’s
new tech immigration policy[Frankfurter Allgemeine/06.02.00]
Tomorrow’s Headlines
“Molecular biologists are up 3 points, economists
down 1/4, in moderate trading”futureWEALTH, Stan Davis and
Christopher Meyer
There is no “talent shortage” …
if …
you are a GPTW*
*Great Place To Work
Alan Kay on PARC’s Bob Taylor
“He was a connoisseur of
talent.”
Connoisseur of Talent
Time!Attitude > SkillPlain English!
Diversity!Arts! [M.I.]
Reward Talent!D.I.Y.
Obsession!
Talent war, Web-speed!
Every resume or employment question that comes to Lucent via
the Web gets answered in 30 minutes or less. [24/7.]
Red Herring [06.00], on Lucent Director of
Recruitment Jim Baughman
C.O.T. Redux“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found
among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.” David Ogilvy
Axiom: Never hire anyone without an aberration in their
background. (Find the One Ton Cookie Man!)
“He grew his hair long, played guitar in a rock band, chased
girls, got into trouble. At age 17 he was flogged by his house
master, who described him as ‘the most difficult boy I’ve ever
had to deal with.’ ”
Solution?
Slip Ritalin into his food …
Or …
Elect Him Prime Minister
Tony Blair*
*talk/May 2000
“Conformity is the enemy of freedom
and the jailer of growth.”
J.F.K.
Yes!
Director of Bringing in the Really Cool People
All You Need to Know?
Chief Evangelist For Really Neat Stuff
Director Of Bringing In The Really Cool People
T.T.D.
STEAL THESE TWO JOB TITLES!
Talent = Brand
Brand Outside=
Brand Inside
Brand Inside
A BIAS FOR ACTION = No. 1
Bottom Line:The new
metabolism!
S.A.V.
Net World!
Act now. Analyze later.
Avram Miller
[TP to Chain Owner …
“Do 5 deals before you go home!”]
“Steve Ross had a wonderful philosophy: People get fired for
not making mistakes.”Bob Pittman
Fail. Forward.
Fast.
High-tech exec
Ready.Fire!Aim.
Ross Perot, Wayne Calloway, Harry Quadracci, et al.
Reprise: Brand Inside
The White Collar Revolution & The Web [90% poleaxed, CDO, Healtheon/WebMD, Buzzsaw.com]
PSF as Building Block [Work Worth Paying For, Real Cool Purchasing Dudes]
Work Worth Paying For = WOW Projects!
Brand You [Everybody!]
The Great War for Talent! [Lookin’ for Dudes with ’tude]
The New Metabolism [Ready. Fire! Aim.]
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside
Part III: Brand Leadership
Forces @ Work II
The Commodity Trap
In the Beginning …
“The audit has become a commodity.”
Big 5 audit partner to TP
Quality Not Enough!
“Quality as defined by few defects is becoming the
price of entry for automotive marketers
rather than a competitive advantage.”
J.D. Power
Quality Not Enough!
“While everything may be better, it is also
increasingly the same.”Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness
of Things,” The New York Times
What’s Special?
“Customers will try ‘low cost providers’ because the Majors have not given them any clear
reason not to.”
Leading Insurance Industry
Analyst (10-98)
“We make over three new product announcements a
day. Can you remember them?
Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina
“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 Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
The “10X/10X Phenomenon”
10 Times Better/
10 Times Less Different
“When we did it ‘right’ it was still pretty
ordinary.”
Barry Gibbons on
“Nightmare No. 1”
Pretzel Crumb-less-ness Plus …
“The Ritz Carlton Experience enlivens the senses, instills
well-being and fulfills even the unexpressed wishes and needs of
the guest.”
from the Ritz Carlton Credo
Nirvana!
- Nordstrom- Four Seasons
- Adirondack Guide Boat- OXO Good Grips
- Ziplocs- Power Point
Why?
Cool!/Surprising!Reliable!
Friendly!/Comfortable!Aesthetically pleasing!
Consider …
What words and emotions do you use to
describe the things you love?
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
Strategy 1:
Lead the Customer!
“The customer is a rear view mirror, not a guide to the future.”
George Colony, Forrester Research
“If you worship at the throne of the voice of the customer, you’ll get only
incremental advances.”Joseph Morone, President, Bentley College
Early Customer Rejection
Post-Its [12 years!]Chrysler Minivans
VCRsFax machines
FedExCNN
Heart-assist pumpsEtc.
Source: Fortune
“Wealth in this new regime flows directly from innovation, not
optimization. That is, wealth is not gained by perfecting the known,
but by imperfectly seizing the unknown.”
Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy
Amen!
“The Age of the Never Satisfied
Customer”Regis McKenna
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!
S2: Master E-Commerce!S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
Strategy 2:
Use E-Commerce
to Re-invent the Business!
?????
$35,000,000.
Dell’s Web sales … daily
2X = 100 days (Internet traffic)
2X = 9 months (network capacity)
Source: Red Herring (1-00)
Web World/05.00
1B pages/7B hotlinks/+1M per day
“For the first time in history, people everywhere have access to the
thoughts, products and writings of a large and growing percentage of
earth’s population.”
The New Yorker/05.29.00
Tomorrow Today: Cisco!
90% of $14.4B(Cisco Connection ONLINE)
Save $500M(service and tech support)
C.Sat e >> C.Sat HCustomer Engineer
Chat Rooms/Collaborative Design ($1B “free” consulting)
And Larry?
Service Call Center
$300.00 per transaction to $1.50
Savings: $550,000,000.00
Source: Ralph Seferian, Oracle [part of O’s $1B saving – on a rev. base of $9B; $1B addnl this year]
B2B
1999 – 2004: 50X
2004: $7.4Source: GartnerGroup (per Reuters 1-26-00)
T
GM/Ford/DaimlerChrysler (02-27)
Covisint$240B (+$500B)
I.P.O.
Goal?
Drive profits to zero!*
*Remember AMR and “dynamic pricing.”
W.W. Grainger*
2X phone/fax
*$220B “MRO” market (per Business 2.0/02-00)
Welcome to
D.I.Y. Nation!“Changes in business processes will emphasize self service. Your costs as
a business go down and
perceived service goes up because customers are conducting it
themselves.” Ray Lane, Oracle
Psych 101: Strongest Force on Earth?
My need to be in perceived control of
my universe!
Anne Busquet/ American Express
Not: “Age of the Internet”
Is: “Age of Customer Control”
Shop in your Underwear
Source: SM’d logo for www.ae.comae = American Eagle Outfitters
The Supply Side …
The Age of the ChoiceboardThe War of the Choiceboards
Source: Adrian Slywotzky, HBR 1-2/2000 [<1%]
“In the network economy, the Website becomes the company’s primary interface to the customer.
The user interface becomes the marketing materials, store front,
store interior, sales staff and post-sales support all rolled into one.”
Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability
“Most companies would do more business on the Internet if they
fired their entire marketing department and replaced it with
people who could produce interactive content that actually made it easier for users to buy.”
Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
Red Herring (01/00)
75% of online shoppers don’t complete their
purchase!
“Even if executives of established businesses grasp the impact of new
technologies … they still face a massive competitive disadvantage precisely
because they are incumbents. … They do complex financial calculations and get
bogged down in internal political debates. Insurgents have no such
inhibitions.”
Philip Evans & Thomas Wurster, Blown to Bits
“ … if they set up a completely independent organization and let that organization attack the
parent.”
Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma
“Where does the Internet rank in priority?
It’s No. 1, 2, 3, and 4.” Jack Welch
“E-business is the final nail in the coffin
for bureaucracy at GE.”
Jack Welch/GE Annual Report 2000
[ Words to Live By …
“Hierarchy is an organization with its face
toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.”
Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business]
There are 2 Kinds of …
Defense*
vs.
Offense**
*Fend off upstarts.**Reinvent our marketspace!
No Room for “Competent”* Sorts
Beer WholesalersPersonal Trainers [FitLinxx]
Financial PlannersCar Dealers
* LVA, “M”VA … vs. HVA [Web-enhanced]
Web Strategy: GE Power Systems
“Launch and Learn”(4 sites in 30 days)
“It’s better to be first with less than last with more. Success on
the Web isn’t just about time to market, it’s also about
‘time to learning.’ ”
Jeff Levy, eHatchery
Jargon Bath!
Bureaucracy free …Systemically integrated …
Internet intense …Knowledge based …
Time and location free …“Instantly” responsive …
Customer centric …Mass customization enabled.
Translation …
Bureaucracy free = Flat org, no B.S.Systemically integrated = Whole supply chain
tightly wired/ friction freeInternet intense = Do it all via the Web
Knowledge based = Open accessTime and location free = Whenever, wherever
“Instantly” responsive = Speed demonsCustomer centric = Customer calls the shotsMass customization enabled = Every product
and service rapidly tailored to client requirements
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
Strategy 3:
Women Rule!
?????????
Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92%
Houses … 91%Bank Account … 89%
Health Care … 75%Etc.
$3.3T + $1.5T = $4.8T*
* Larger than Japan!
Most Under-reported story!
9M*/28M(1 of 4)/$3.6T [> Germany]
* 400K in ’72; 132% since ’92
Sources: NFWBO, Cognetics, Business Wire (030600)
48% working wives > 50%80% checks
61% bills53% stock (mutual fund boom)
43% > $500K95% financial decisions/
29% single handed
Women … 49% of Web users; 6 of 10 new users; 83% of wired women are primary decision makers for family healthcare,
finances, education.
Source: Business Week (11-99)
New golfers … 37%Basketball … 13.5M
1 in 27 (’70) … 1 in 3 (’96)
1874?
1874 … Jock Strap1977 … Jogbra
1977 ... 25K
1996 … 42M
Yeow!
1970 … 1%
2002 … 50%
OPPORTUNITY
NO. 1!*
[* No shit!]
Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice
Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect
Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented
Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities
FemaleThink/ Popcorn
“Men and women don’t think the same way, don’t communicate the same
way, don’t buy for the same reasons.
“He simply wants the transaction to take place. She’s interested in creating a relationship. Every place women go,
they make connections.”
Women and Healthcare
Women are … more dissatisfied, frustrated by the way they are treated
and spoken down to by physicians, seek more information, are more pressed for time … and make 75% of health care decisions and control 2/3 of health care $
$$$ [and constitute 2/3 of health care employees].
Source: Patricia Braus, Marketing Healthcare to Women
Women and Financial Advisors
Women want … a plan, to be listened to, to be taken seriously, to read about it, to think about it.
Women do not want … an in-your-face sales pitch
Source: Kathleen Boyle, Wheat Boyle Butcher Singer
How Many Gigs You Got, Man?
“Hard to believe … Different criteria”
“Every research study we’ve done indicates that women really care about the relationship with their
vendor.”
Robin Sternbergh/ IBM
Q: Why do guys like pagers?
A1: Sense of importance [Pager Dude]
A2: Cubicle Slaves’ replacement for “real guys” tool belts
Q: Why do women like pagers?
A: Get the news A.S.A.P. if her child is in the Nurse’s Office
Q:Why do women hate pagers?
A: They find nothing romantic about wearing a Stetson wrench or Stanley hammer attached to their waist! [Note
the pager’s clip-on device … guys ]
Read This Book …
EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women
Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold
EVEolution: Truth No. 1
Connecting Your Female Consumers to Each
Other Connects Them to Your Brand
“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
Weight Watchers International “Model”
“What if ExxonMobil or Shell dipped into their credit card database to help commuting women
interview and make a choice of car pool partners?”
“What if American Express made a concerted effort to connect up female empty-nesters
through on-line and off-line programs, geared to help women re-enter the workforce with today’s
skills?”
EVEolution
Not!!
“Year of the Woman”
Enterprise Reinvention!
RecruitingHiring/Rewarding/ Promoting
Structure Processes
MeasurementStrategyCulture Vision
Leadership
THE BRAND ITSELF!
“What kind of car does Mommy want?”
“I didn’t know [company] were giving
company cars to secretaries.”
Source: UK financial services CEO, 12/99
27 March 2000: email to TP from Shelley Rae Norbeck
“I make 1/3rd more money than my husband does. I have as much financial
‘pull’ in the relationship as he does. I’d say this is also true of most of my women
friends. Someone should wake up, smell the coffee and kiss our asses long enough
to sell us something! We have money to
spend and nobody wants it!”
Not a Morality Play!
“It is critical that we all understand that IBM is not marketing to women
entrepreneurs because it is the thing to do, or even the right thing to do.
We are marketing to women entrepreneurs because it is a huge
opportunity.”
Cherie Piebes
Psssst: Wanna see my “porn”
collection?
THIS JUST MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST “THING” IN THIS
SEMINAR. PLEASE: THINK ABOUT IT!
“If we are single, they say we couldn’t catch a man. If we are
married, they say we are neglecting him. If we are divorced,
they say we couldn’t keep him. If we are widowed, they say we
killed him.”
Kathleen Brown, on the joys of female political candidacy
Speaking of Enormous
[Missed] [Huge] Opportunities ...
74/55
“At each stage of their lives, the needs and desires of the baby
boomers have become the dominant concerns of American business and popular culture. If you can anticipate
the movement of the baby-boom generation’s life-span migration, you
can see the future.”Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave
Aging/“Elderly”
2X growth rate$$$$$$$$$$$$
“I’m in charge!”
Good source: Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave
Priorities: Aging/“Elderly”
Experiences … Convenience … Comfort
… Access … Respect!
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
Strategy 4:
Design Rules!
And Tomorrow …
“Fifteen years ago companies competed on price. Now It’s
quality. Tomorrow it’s design.”Robert Hayes
All Equal Except …
“At Sony we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same
technology, price, performance and
features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product
from another in the marketplace.”
Norio Ohga
Design as Soul
“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s
vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the
meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a
man-made creation.”Steve Jobs
The I.D. [International Design] Forty*
Airstream … Alfred A. Knopf … Apple Computer … Amazon.com …
Bloomberg … Caterpillar … CNN … Disney … FedEx … Gillette … IBM … Martha Stewart … New Balance …
Nickelodeon … Patagonia … The New York Yankees … 3M … Etc.
* List No. 1, 1999
Unconventional [Design] Messages
Not about ... “Lumpy Objects”!
Not about ... $79,000 objects
Message:Services are Not Intangible!
You “give off” hundreds of design cues … daily!
YOU ARE A DESIGNER!
T.T.D./“Beauty Contest!”
1. Pick one form/ document: invoice, airbill, sick leave policy, returns claim
form.2. Rate it on a 1 to 10 scale
(1 = Awful; 10 = Scintillating) on three dimensions: Beauty, Grace, Clarity.
3. Repeat … every 15 days.
Notes Page
• DO THIS! USE MY TERMS! [Beauty … Grace … Clarity.] Be quantitative. [PLEASE.]
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
Strategy 5:
It’s the Experience!
“Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from
goods.”Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The
Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
“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 that’s not work or home. It’s the place our
customers come for refuge.”Nancy Orsolini, District Manager
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
“Car designers need to create a story. Every car provides an
opportunity to create an adventure. …“The Prowler makes you smile. Why? Because it’s focused. It has a plot, a
reason for being, a passion.”
Freeman Thomas, co-designer VW Beetle; designer Audi TT
Hmmmm(?): “Only” Words …
StoryAdventure
Smile Focus
PlotPassion
[PlotWilliams Sonoma = 6 [was 10]
Crate & Barrel = 8Sharper Image = 9+
Smith & Hawken = 8+Vermont Country Store = 8+
Garnet Hill = 9L.L. Bean = 5 [was 9+]
Land’s End = 7+Colonial Williamsburg = ?]
And Now For A Nod To 1/7th of Our Economy!
“Medicine looks likely to change more in the next 20 years than it has in
the last 200.”
British Medical Journal (11-11-99)
Health Care Tsunami
Prevention/Wellness/FitnessProactive Engineering/Gene
“stuff”[Blockbuster-Bazooka to Specific-Sniper’s Rifle]
Holistic/Homeopathic/Non-traditionalPatient-centric/Web-led
No waste [Healtheon/WebMD et al.]Etc.
Alternative Medicine
More visits than to physicians
Same $$$ expenditure [approx $27B]
Stanford study: 2/3 use alt therapies
“This is the first time in Western medical history that we have had a movement that is consumer
driven.”/Dr. Woody Merrell, Center for Health and Healing, Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan.
[Merrell: Process = Partnership.]
Source: Barron’s/05.15
Confusing Message*
Traditional indemnity: 37% to 11% [’94-’99; 77% in ’88]
HMO: 23% to 30%
PPO: 25% to 43%
*Cut the waste & provide choice
TP 03.26.00: AMA Riff
Are You Fighting Yesterday’s War?Docs don’t know it all.
There are a lotta bad docs. There are a lotta bad medical decisions.
“Hospitals” kill far too many people. (Bad decisions, bad execution.)
Systemic waste is stratospheric. (Still.)
Patients are getting (much) smarter.Patients have had it with HMOs. (And Docs with the
“white-coat syndrome.”) You are not smarter than I am. (I am your partner.)
You are not busier than I am. (!!!!!)Patients want more data. (And can readily get it.)
Boomers will control their lives. Period. Medicine is about to be overwhelmed with a tsunami!
1965: “ ‘Doctor’ will see you now. ‘Doctor’ will take care of you.”
YES, NURSE. ME GOOD PUPPY DOG.
1995: “HMO will take care of you.”
BULLSHIT.
2005: “I will take care of me. I’d like your expert help.”
Patient-centric* Health Care
Wellness (Fix to prevent.)
Partnership (“Tour guide” model.)
Web (Info and support group availability
RESPECT! (Mutual.)
WOMEN RULE!*Not: HMO-centric, Employer-centric, Insurer-
centric, Doc-centric
SoftWatch (MS)“Manage relationships across the
healthcare continuum”/ Amir Kishon
Establish e-relationships with customers/retain customers/collect data
Patients record info + receive feedback/ online access to nurses
Community with others with MS
Etc.Source: Start-Up
Reprise: Dawn of an Age of Self-Determination? E.g. …
Brand You [end of corporate paternalism]
D.I.Y. [the Internet]Boomers [“I’m in charge here!”]
Health [“I’m in charge here!”]
“IT enables total transparency. People with access to relevant information
are beginning to challenge any type of
authority. The stupid, loyal and humble customer,
employee, patient or citizen is dead.”
Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master e-commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Brand Outside
BRAND POWER!
Brand It! Now, More Than Ever!
“The increasing difficulty in differentiating between products and
the speed with which competitors take
up innovations will assist in the rise and rise of the brand.”
Gillian Law and Nick Grant, Management [New Zealand]
No Room for Brands?
NikeSaturnCNN
America OnlineCharles Schwab
StarbucksThe Gap
IntelEtc.
Brand = Trust!
“Most buyers do not have a clue whether anybody else makes a better microprocessor, but ‘Intel Inside’ has become a ‘trust mark’ - a trademark that consumers put their faith in.”
The Economist
What Can [Can’t] Be Branded?“Branding is not a problem if you have the right mentality. You go to your team and
you pin up a $200 Swiss Army Watch. Competing in the ridiculously crowded
sub-$200 watch market, they made it into a brand name, named after the most
irrelevant and useless thing in history [the Swiss Army]. And you say, ‘Gang, if they
can do it, we can do it.’ ”
Barry Gibbons
“Salt is salt is salt. Right? Not when it
comes in a blue box with a picture of a little girl carrying an umbrella. Morton International continues to dominate the U.S. salt market even though it charges more for a product that is demonstrably
the same as many other products on the shelf.”
Tom Asaker, Humanfactor Marketing
T.T.D./Calling the Corporate Shrink!
“Organizational Psychotherapy”/
WHO WE ARE!
Notes Page
• This is The Big Enchilada:
SPEND – lotsa – TIME ON IT!
Scott Bedbury/ Nike, Starbucks
“A Great Brand taps into emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions. A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience. It’s an
emotional connecting point that transcends the product.
“A Great Brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that
connects with something very deep - a fundamental appreciation of mythology.
Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.”
Brand = You Must Care!
“Success means never letting the competition define you. Instead you have to define
yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
Tom Chappell, Tom’s of Maine
“Consumers don’t simply buy products, they buy attitudes as well. When confronted with proliferation and
diversity, choices become increasingly informed by belief. [Consumers] want to
know who is behind the products that they buy. They want to know the
company. They want to know what you think.”
Jesper Kunde, Corporate Religion
“Create a Cause, not a ‘business.’ ”
Gary Hamel, Fortune (06.00), on re-inventing a company (Exemplar #1:
Charles Schwab)
“In the funky village, real competition no longer revolves
around marketshare. We are competing for attention –
mindshare and heartshare.”Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale,
Funky Business
Brand = Special = Passion = Plot =
Compelling Mythology = Cause = Connection = Caring
Brand Outside
Reprise
Context: “No” to “inevitable commoditization”
S1: Lead the Customer!S2: Master E-Commerce!
S3: Women Rule! (and the elderly)
S4: Design Rules! (too)
S5: It’s the Experience!Net: Glorious Age of the BRAND!
Lead the Customer: Why Tough
Guts!Failures!
Re-invention via ecommerce: Why Tough
Total commitment to total enterprise [and supply
chain] reinvention!
Yo, C.D.O.!!!!!!!!
Women’s Market: Why Tough
EncompassingAttitude
CULTURAL!
Design: Why Tough
True-believer-dom-shipEncompassing/Cultural
Ing-ing/Experience: Why Tough
What’s the Plot?/Total
Reorientation
Brand Power: Why Tough
Way of LifeForever!
Passion Rules!Touches Everything!It Am Me [Personal!]
Message :
Not for the Faint of Heart!*
*Weenies need not apply
Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside
Part III: Brand Leadership
Brand Leadership
Passion Rules!
Brand Leadership!
“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective
communication of a story.”
Howard Gardner Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
“Leadership is a performance. You have to be
conscious of your behavior, because everybody else is.”
Carly Fiorina
“The challenge for IBM, AT&T and other mainstream companies is to re-instill a sense of adventure in
recruits.”
Burke Stinson, AT&T
Brand Leadership:ENTHUSIASM RULES!
“I am a dispenser of enthusiasm.”/ Ben
Zander
Talent “War,” Marketplace “War”
“The successful company has to create an environment that imbues
its employees with a sense of passion.”
Joe Nocera, eCompany, on David Pottruck
Ann Richards’ Dogma
Show up!
Know your message!
PUT YOURSELF AT RISK EVERY DAY!
“If things seem under control, you’re just
not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
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