The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits - Hardcover

For years, the prevailing wisdom in business was that profitability was a by-product of market share; get the biggest piece of the market and profit will surely follow. But in the last 10 years, this formula has time and again proved itself wrong. Companies such as DEC, GM, Ford, United Airlines, Kodak and Sears have all demonstrated that market share does not necessarily lead to profitability.

The Profit Zone looks at how profit happens in today's customer-driven economy. The authors demonstrate why market share often leads to a "no-profit zone" and identify 22 profit models that have helped dozens of companies consistently make money. Included are in-depth looks at companies--Disney, GE, Microsoft, Intel, Charles Schwab--that have successfully redesigned their businesses and dramatically increased the value of their companies. Instead of focusing on market share, these innovators first looked at their customers' needs and how they could profit from fulfilling them. The book considers example after example of how the profit zone works, from Disney's theme parks to Schwab's marketing and selling of mutual funds. The final chapter is a handbook that allows managers to apply the ideas to their own companies. Clearly written and immensely practical, The Profit Zone deserves a place on every manager's bookshelf. --Amazon.com

Rarely if ever have any observers so skillfully dissected these executives strategies to create lessons that can be taught to anybody....The Profit Zone provides insights and lessons aplenty. John Byrne, "BusinessWeek"
The Profit Zone is so insightful that most managers will pray that their competitors never read it. Richard D Aveni, Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and author of Hypercompetition
The Profit Zone could safely come with a guarantee that it would increase a company s profit if management read it and acted on it. Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University"

-Rarely--if ever--have any observers so skillfully dissected these executives' strategies to create lessons that can be taught to anybody....The Profit Zone provides insights and lessons aplenty.---John Byrne, BusinessWeek
-The Profit Zone is so insightful that most managers will pray that their competitors never read it.---Richard D'Aveni, Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and author of Hypercompetition
-The Profit Zone could safely come with a guarantee that it would increase a company's profit if management read it and acted on it.- --Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

"Rarely--if ever--have any observers so skillfully dissected these executives' strategies to create lessons that can be taught to anybody....The Profit Zone provides insights and lessons aplenty."--John Byrne, BusinessWeek

"The Profit Zone is so insightful that most managers will pray that their competitors never read it."--Richard D'Aveni, Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and author of Hypercompetition

"The Profit Zone could safely come with a guarantee that it would increase a company's profit if management read it and acted on it." --Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University