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Emerging Technology Conference

Tom Peters/09.05.2001

HP-Compaq

“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

“Acquisitions are about

buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets.

There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters

HP: -18.6%Compaq: -10.3%

Dell: +4.4%

Message 2001: Only idiots pull in their [investment]

horns during a downturn.

My GOAL: Radicalize Audiences!*

*Hint: These are Radical times!

Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive in ’87; 18 are in ’87 F100; the 18 F100 “survivors” underperformed the market by

20%; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market from 1917 to 1987.

S&P 500 from 1957 to 1997: 74 members of the

Class of ’57 were alive in ’97; 12 (2.4%) of 500 outperformed the market from 1957 to 1997.

Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the

Market

“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop

their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively

in technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied

market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised

the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.”

Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma

Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside

Part III: Brand Leadership

Forces @ Work I

The Destruction Imperative!

“The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is

not likely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and

financially, yes, but not structurally and economically.”

Peter Drucker, Business 2.0 (08.00)

Built to Last v. Built to Flip

“The problem with Built to Last is that it’s a romantic notion. Large companies are

incapable of ongoing innovation, of ongoing flexibility.”

“Increasingly, successful businesses will be ephemeral. They will be built to yield

something of value – and once that value has been exhausted, they will vanish.”

Fast Company (03/2000)

The [New] Ge Way

DYB.com

Brand Inside

Brand Work: The Professional Service Firm

Model

White Collar

Revolution!

So what will be the Basic Building

Block of the New Org?

Answer: PSF![Professional Service Firm]

Department Head

to …

Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.

Brand Inside

The Heart of the Value Creation Revolution:

PSF Unbound!

11 September 2000

09.11.2000: HP bids

$18,000,000,000for

PricewaterhouseCoopersConsulting business!

[“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the

price of entry.”

Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard]

HP … Sun … GE … IBM … UPS … UTC …

General Mills … Springs … Anheuser-Busch …

Carpet One … Delphi … Etc. … Etc.

“We want to be the air traffic

controllers of electrons.”

Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems (Home Depot)

“The primary strategic mission for [CEO Jeffrey] Immelt is to hasten GE’s transformation

from a low-margin manufacturer to a more lucrative services

company that sells solutions as much as stuff.”

Newsweek/09.10.2001 (Welch raised share of services revenue from 15% o 70%)

“In GE’s world there are fewer but bigger

customers, so there’s a

vital need to maximize the relationship.”

Newsweek/09.10.2001

“UPS wants to take over the sweet spot in the endless loop

of goods, information and capital that all the packages

[it moves] represent.”ecompany.com/06.01 (E.g., UPS Logistics

manages the logistics of 4.5M Ford vehicles, from 21 mfg. Sites to 6,000 NA dealers)

Brand Inside

Brand Action:Getting Started … a

Personal Perspective

Topic: Boss-free

Implementation of STM /Stuff That

MATTERS!

THE IDEA: Model F4

Find a Fellow

Freak Faraway

Heart of the Matter

F2F!/K2K!/1@T/R.F!A.*

*Freak to Freak/Kook to Kook/One at a Time/ Ready.Fire!Aim.

And …

K2KK*S2SS***Kook to Kooky Kustomer

**Skunk to Scintillating Supplier

Sales2001

The Sales25: Great Salespeople …

1. Know the product. (Find cool mentors, and use them.)

2. Know the company.3. Know the customer. (Including the customer’s consultants.) (And especially the “corporate culture.”)4. Love internal politics at home and abroad.5. Religiously respect competitors. (No badmouthing, no matter how provoked.)6. Wire the customer’s org. (Relationships at all levels & functions.)7. Wire the home team’s org. and vendors’ orgs. (INVEST Big Time time in relationships at all levels & functions.) (Take junior people in all functions to client meetings.)

Politics Rules!

Great Salespeople …

8. Never overpromise. (Even if it costs you your job.) 9. Sell only by solving problems-creating profitable opportunities. (“Our product solves these problems, creates these unimagined INCREDIBLE opportunities, and will make you a ton of money—here’s exactly how.”) (IS THIS A “PRODUCT SALE” OR A WOW-ORIGINAL SOLUTION YOU’LL BE DINING OFF 5 YEARS FROM NOW? THAT WILL BE WRITTEN UP IN THE TRADE PRESS?)10. Will involve anybody—including mortal enemies—if it enhances the scope of the problem we can solve and increases the scope of the opportunity we can encompass.11. Know the Brand Story cold; live the Brand Story. (If not, leave.)

Great Salespeople …

12. Think “Turnkey.” (It’s always your problem!)

13. Act as “orchestra conductor”: You are responsible for making the whole-damn-network respond. (PERIOD.)

14. Help the customer get to know the vendor’s organization & build up their Rolodex.15. Walk away from bad business. (Even if it gets you fired.)

16. Understand the idea of a “good loss.” (A bold effort that’s sometimes better than a lousy win.)17. Think those who regularly say “It’s all a price issue” suffer from rampant immaturity & shrunken imagination.18. Will not give away the store to get a foot in the door. 19. Are wary & respectful of upstarts—the real enemy.20. Seek several “cool customers”—who’ll drag you into Tomorrowland.

Great Salespeople …

21. Use the word “partnership” obsessively, even though it is way overused. (“Partnership” includes folks at all levels throughout the supply chain.)22. Send thank you notes by the truckload. (NOT E-NOTES.) (Most are for “little things.”) (50% of those notes are sent to those in our company!) Remember birthdays. Use the word “we.” 23. When you look across the table at the customer, think religiously to yourself: “HOW CAN I MAKE THIS DUDE RICH & FAMOUS & GET HIM-HER PROMOTED?” 24. Great salespeople in great technology companies can affirmatively respond to the query in an HP banner ad: HAVE YOU CHANGED CIVILIZATION TODAY?25. Keep your bloody PowerPoint slides simple!

BOTTOM LINE

The Enemy!

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

“Reward excellent failures. Punish

mediocre successes.”

Phil Daniels, Sydney exec

Brand Inside

Brand Talent: The Great War for Talent

“We believe companies can increase their market cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve

Macadam at Georgia-Pacific changed 20 of his 40 box plant managers to put

more talented, higher paid managers in charge. He increased

profitability from $25 million to $80 million in 2 years.”

Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)

Message: Some people are better than other

people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other

people.

“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers

outshine their male counterparts in almost

every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00

“Boys are trained in a way that will make

them irrelevant.”

Phil Slater

The Cracked Ones Let in the Light

“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

Brand InsideReprise:

TOMORROW’S ORGS: Itinerant Potential

Machines

TALENT POOL TO DIE FOR. Youthful. Insanely energetic. Value creativity. Risk taking is

routine. Failing is normal … if you’re stretching. Want to “make their bones” in “the revolution.”

Love the new technologies. Well rewarded. Don’t plan to be around 10 years from now.

TALENT POOL PLUS. Seek out and work with “world’s best” as needed (it’s often needed). “We

aim to change the world, and we need gifted colleagues—who well may not be on our

payroll.”

BRASSY-BUT-GROUNDED-LEADERSHIP. Say “I don’t know”—and then unleash the TALENT.

Have a vision to be DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT—but don’t expect the co. to be around forever. Will scrap pet projects, and change course 180

degrees—and take a big write-off in the process. NO REGRETS FROM SCREW-UPS WHOSE TIME

HAS NOT-YET-COME. GREAT REGRETS AT TIME & $$$ WASTED ON “ME TOO” PRODUCTS

AND PROJECTS.

BRASSY-BUT-GROUNDED-LEADERSHIP. (Cont.) “Visionary” leaders matched by leaders with

shrewd business sense: “HOW DO WE TURN A PROFIT ON THIS ‘COOL’ IDEA?” Appreciate “market creation” as much as or more than

“market share growth.” ARE INSANELY AWARE THAT MARKET LEADERS ARE ALWAYS IN

PRECARIOUS POSITIONS, AND THAT MARKET SHARE WILL NOT PROTECT US, IN TODAY’S VOLATILE WORLD, FROM THE NEXT KILLER IDEA AND KILLER ENTREPRENEUR. (Gates.

Ellison. Venter. McNealy. Walton. Skilling. Case. Etc.)

ALLIANCE MANIACS. Don’t assume that “the best resides within.” WORK WITH A SHIFTING ARRAY OF STATE-OF-THE-ART PARTNERS

FROM ONE END OF THE “SUPPLY CHAIN” TO THE OTHER. Including vendors and

consultants and … especially … PIONEERING CUSTOMERS—who will “pull us into the

future.”

TECHNOLOGY-NETWORK FANATICS. Run the whole-damn-company, and relations with all

outsiders, on the Internet … at Internet speed. Reluctant to work with those who don’t share

this (radical) vision.

POTENTIAL MACHINES-ORGANISMS. Don’t know what’s coming next. But are ready to jump at opportunities, especially those that challenge-overturn our own “way of doing

things.”

Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside

Part III: Brand Leadership

Forces @ Work II

The Sameness Trap

“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of

similar companies, employing

similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, working in

similar jobs, coming up with similar

ideas, producing similar things, with

similar prices and similar quality.”

Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business

“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’

that they are now more or less identical.”

Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment

“Customers will try ‘low cost

providers’ because the Majors have not given them any clear reason

not to.”Leading Insurance Industry Analyst (10-99)

Brand OutsideNew Technology/

Strategy 1:Use E-Commerce to

Re-invent Everything!

Dell’s OptiPlex Facility

Big Job: 6 to 8 hours.(20,000 per day)

Parts Inventory: 2 hours,

100 square feet. (Overall, 5 days vs. 50 to 90 days; target is

2.5 days)

Enron eWorld: “Price a structured trade,” per John Arnold, 26: Early

1999: 30 times a day. Late 2000: 30 times per … minute.

Long-term gas contract. 1989: 9 months, 400+ deals. Late 90s:

2 weeks, 2 per week. Late 2000: 5 such deals per day

Source: www.ecompany.com (1/2001)

Cisco!

90% of $20B (=$50M/day)Annual savings in service

and support from customer self-management: $550M

Secret Cisco: Community!

C.Sat e >> C.Sat H

Customer Engineer Chat Rooms/Collaborative

Design ($1B “free” consulting) (45,000 customer problems a week solved via

customer collaboration)

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

“Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the

ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet.

Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the

number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an

ebusiness.”

Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins

“Customer Service” is DEAD.“One-to-One” is DEAD.

Welcome to: ????[??? = We live together in seamless-

responsive harmony with all Members of the Value Chain. We Create together. We Fulfill together. We Learn together. We

Adjust together. All old categories – which imply separation and linearity and

hierarchy and do-it-to-themism – must die.]

Brand OutsideNew Demographics/

Strategy 2A:

Women Rule!

$4.8T > Japan

9M/27.5M/$3.6T > Germany

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

What If …

“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

“Women don’t buy

brands. They join them.”

Faith Popcorn, EVEolution

“Honey, are you sure you have

the kind of money it takes to

be looking at a car like this?”

Brand OutsideNew Demographics/

Strategy 2B:

Welcome to “Old World”!

“ ‘Age Power’ will rule the 21st century, and we are woefully

unprepared.”Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st

Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

Aging/“Elderly”

$$$$$$$$$$$$“I’m in charge!”

“NOT ACTING THEIR AGE: As Baby Boomers

Zoom into Retirement, Will America Ever Be the

Same?”USN&WR Cover/06.01

50+

$7T wealth (70%)/$2T annual income50% all discretionary spending

79% own homes/40M credit card users41% new cars/48% luxury

$610B healthcare spending/74% prescription drugs

5% of advertising targetsKen Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st

Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

Brand Outside

Strategy 3:

BRAND POWER!

“Most companies tend to equate branding with the company’s marketing. Design a new marketing

campaign and, voila, you’re on course. They are wrong. The task is much bigger. It is about fulfilling our potential … not about a new logo, no matter how

clever. WHAT IS MY MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY TO PEOPLE? HOW DO

I MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY UNIQUE? The brand has to give of itself, the company has to give of itself, the management has to give of itself. To

put it bluntly, it is a matter of whether – or not – you want to be … UNIQUE … NOW.”

Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment

1st Law Mktg Physics: OVERT BENEFIT (Focus: 1 or 2 > 3 or 4/“One Great Thing.”

Source #1: Personal Passion)

2ND Law: REAL REASON TO BELIEVE (Stand & Deliver!)

3RD Law: DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE (Execs Don’t Get It: See the next slide.)

Source: Jump Start Your Business Brain, Doug Hall

2 Questions

“How likely are you to purchase this new product or service?” (95%

to 100% weighting by execs)

“How unique is this new product or service?” (0% to 5%*)

*No exceptions in 20 years – Doug Hall, Jump Start Your Business Brain

“WHO ARE YOU [these days] ?”

TP to Client

Part I: Brand InsidePart II: Brand Outside

Part III: Brand Leadership

Brand Leadership

Passion Rules!

“Let’s make a dent in the universe.”

Steve Jobs