The Discipline of Market Leaders

Why is it that Casio can sell a calculator more cheaply than Kellogg's can sell a box of corn flakes? Why can FedEx absolutely, positively" deliver your package overnight but airlines have trouble keeping track of your bags? What does your company do better than anyone else? What unique value do you provide to your customers? How will you increase that value next year? As customers' demands for the highest quality products, best services, and lowest prices increase daily, the rules for market leadership are changing. Once powerful companies that haven't gotten the message are faltering, while others, new and old, are thriving. In disarmingly simple and provocative terms, Treacy and Wiersema show what it takes to become a leader in your market, and stay there, in an ever more sophisticated and demanding world.

New in paperback--the bold new strategy for reinventing competition, written by the authors of the popular Reengineering the Corporation. Treacy and Wiersma describe in detail how companies such as Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab, and Intel are creating havoc for their competitors by raising and reshaping customers' value expectations.

* Introduction * How to Fail in Business Without Even Trying * The New Rules of Competition * The Winners Choice * The Discipline of Operational Excellence * One Companys ExperienceAT&Ts Universal Card * The Discipline of Product Leaders * One Companys ExperienceIntel Corporation * The Discipline of Customer Intimacy * One Companys ExperienceAirborne Express * Setting Your Value Discipline Agenda * Creating the Cult of the Customer * Sustaining the Lead * Epilogue