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How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In Rick Kash and David Calhoun 
 Format: Hardcover, 272pp. ISBN: 9780062000453 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: October 12, 2010 Average Customer Review: 
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: For the past twenty years, the growth formula for business has been to increase revenues by expanding product offerings and streamlining supply. But with the recent global recession, the world economy has changed forever. Now the old tools—most notably supply-chain management—are no longer enough. In a new digital age characterized by over-supply and too many product types in almost every market, the new challenge is to locate and capture the elusive pools of high-profit demand. Rick Kash and David Calhoun have the answer: a revolutionary, demand-driven model that has already proved successful for some of the world's most admired companies, including Best Buy, Anheuser-Busch, Hershey's, and Allstate. At the heart of this powerful new business model is an achievable vision for a new kind of winning company, one that uses sophisticated new tools and techniques to discover, characterize, and then serve these pools of high-profit demand—and in the process gain pricing power in that market. Kash and Calhoun show how to use everything from social networks to more revealing and effective consumer-research techniques and then introduce the demand chain, the logical new partner to your supply chain. The authors' principles, case histories, and insights will help your business run faster, cut costs, and become better able to deliver high-quality products and services, even in the tightest economic climate. How Companies Win is a compelling call to action to engage every level within a company, small or large, local or global. > Reviews “A persuasive case that winning in today’s market requires an understanding that supply-driven business models of the past will not keep pace with fundamental changes in our global economy and its digitally enabled consumer.” —Jack Welch, bestselling author of Winning “The rise of social networks has amplified the individual’s voice and this has sparked a revolution in demand. How Companies Win offers real-world solutions that you can implement right now to take advantage of these changes.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook “With all of the options shoppers have today, it’s critically important to understand demand. It’s how you satisfy your customers better than your competitors. It’s the way companies will win.” —Brian Cornell, President & CEO, Sam's Clubs “Calhoun and Kash have taken on the biggest business question of all: what it will take for companies to win in this new era of growing oversupply and heightened global competition. The conclusions they reach are eye-opening. ” —Henry R. Kravis, Cofounder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts “How Companies Win shows how to successfully manage in the future. Its fresh look at data and the case histories will stimulate the imagination of every business leader.” —Mary Dillon, President & CEO, US Cellular “The authors’ discussion of Precision as the 5th P adds a powerful new tool for marketers. It aligns exactly with our strategy of precision marketing.” —Joseph Tripodi, Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer, Coca-Cola Corporation
About the Authors Rick Kash is the founder and CEO of The Cambridge Group, the growth-strategy consulting firm. He is also the author of The New Law of Demand and Supply. Kash works with companies around the world to help them grow through demand-based business models. David Calhoun has been the chairman of the executive board and CEO of The Nielsen Company since 2006. Calhoun has previously served as the vice chairman of the General Electric Company, the president and chief executive officer of GE Infrastructure, and the chief executive of several other GE divisions and subsidiaries.  |
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