Enduring success : what top companies do differently

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Includes bibliographical references and index

In search of the secrets of success -- The customer-value competition is pushing many companies to the limit of their possibilities -- Changing market dynamics: the profitability of many companies is increasingly at risk -- Key strategic challenges as seen by decision-makers -- Success of the optimisers in the customer-value competition -- Summary conclusions to phase 1 -- Unanswered questions -- The IMP model: the strategies of winners -- The IMP model -- The result: explaining 50 per cent of corporate success is a lot, but at the same time not to much -- Core findings -- What makes top performers different? -- What makes top performers different? -- Top performers never settle for today's success -- The most senior executives are themselves the innovation drivers in the company -- Top performers succeed in combining forward-looking market knowledge with sustained competence management -- Top performers show an impressive understanding of innovation -- Top performers rely more on u

nnovation and change -- The ability to be lucky -- What do top companies do differently? -- The insights of great leaders -- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO, Nestl' SA -- Markus Langes-Swarovski, Member of the Executive board, Swarovski -- Prof Dr Michael Popp and Dr Uwe Baumann, Bionorica AG -- Stefan Pierer, CEO, KTM Sportmotorcycle AG -- Ren Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telekom -- Michael Mirow, former head of strategic planning, Siemens AG -- Peter Lorange, President of IMD Business School -- Hans-Joachim Reck, Partner, Heidrick & Struggles, Germany -- Bibliography -- Notes