time kapalua 4 february 2000

TIME

Kapalua4 February 2000

Microsoft = R.O.W.

Microsoft > GM + Ford + Boeing + Lockheed Martin + Deere + Caterpillar + USX + Weyerhaeuser + Union Pacific + Kodak + Sears + Marriott + Safeway + KelloggSource: Business Week data through 5-99

Microsoft = R.O.W. (II)

Microsoft > GM + Ford + Boeing + Lockheed

Martin + Deere + Caterpillar + USX + Weyerhaeuser + Union Pacific + Kodak + Sears + Marriott + Safeway + Kellogg +

McDonald’s + Bank One + General Mills + American Airlines + United Airlines + + Delta Air Lines + US Airways + Quaker Oats

Source: Yastrow Marketing (through 11-23-99)

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)

“It means nothing less than the total

reinvention of this company.”

Jacques’ New New Ford

Ford + MicrosoftFord + Yahoo!Ford + Oracle

Ford + HPEtc.Etc.

The “Commodity

Trap”

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

“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

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]

“What Matters to Online Buyers”*

#1: Product brand

#2: Retailer brand

*Source: Business 2.0

Opportunity No. 1

Coca Cola … 9Virgin … 9

Amazon.com … 7Yahoo! … 7

Sun … 3HP … 2 (on a 1-10 scale)

The Economist … 2

Time?????

And with the Game Boy / Play Station

Generation???

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

“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

Strategy 2:Master

E-Commerce!

$30,000,000. = ???

Dell’s Web sales … daily

2X = 100 days (Internet traffic)

2X = 9 months (network capacity)

Source: Red Herring (1-00)

“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

Anne Busquet/ American Express

Not: “Age of the Internet”

Is: “Age of Customer Control”

“Where does the Internet rank in priority?

It’s No. 1, 2, 3, and 4.” Jack Welch

There are 2 Kinds of …

Defense*

vs.

Offense**

*Fend off upstarts.**Reinvent our marketspace!

“We want to be the air traffic controllers

of electrons.”Bob Nardelli,

GE Power Systems

RR on 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.”

Strategy 3:

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

“This is the end of the pure product era. For instance, car

makers are beginning to understand that the vehicle

per se is a platform for delivering services that drive

the customer experience.”Carly Fiorina, HP @ Comdex ’99

Mantra: “Any good can be ing-ed”

the driving experiencethe pumping experience

the sitting experiencethe reading experiencethe washing experiencethe cooking experience

Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage

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

Brand Work!

“Reward excellent failures. Punish

mediocre successes.”

Phil Daniels, Sydney exec

“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)

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)

Brand Talent!

Issue Y2K

The Great War for Talent!

“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

Put Yourself at Risk!

“We are in a brawl with no rules!” Paul Allaire

Ann Richards’ Dogma

Show up!

Know your message!

PUT YOURSELF AT RISK!

“If things seem under control, you’re just

not going fast enough.”

Mario Andretti