Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
- Published by: Adams Media January 1, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1598692143
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1598692143
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Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Book Description
Many companies today are in crisis. In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, they have created dozens of new products and services while increasing their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits.
The Complexity Crisis shows you how to streamline your business for greatest efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. You'll learn how to:
- Target complexity in your organization and reduce or eliminate it
- Build a simple, effective corporate structure
- Add value to your business by avoiding complexity traps
In
The Complexity Crisis, management consultant John L. Mariotti shows you how to evaluate your cost and management systems so you can clear away complexity--and conquer your competition.
About The Author
JOHN L. MARIOTTI is president and founder of the Enterprise Group, a coalition of executive advisors. As the former president of Rubbermaid Office Products Group, he led a multinational group of nine divisions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He's also a former management consultant and contributing editor for
Industry Week magazine.
Reader Reviews
John L. Mariotti, a senior business executive turned consultant, speaks from experience about the causes, costs and cure for complexity. He argues that companies complicate their businesses in the effort to grow when markets are stagnant. They multiply products, services, target markets and vendors. However, this strategy gets them into trouble: They increase overhead, because they need to hire more people to deal with the multiplication, their inventory swells and their service suffers. They don't know how to forecast accurately under these new circumstances, and their bottom lines turn red. Because the world's wealthiest markets are in regions with low population growth and, therefore, low market growth, complexity is becoming a widespread crisis. Fortunately, it is curable. getAbstract suggests that if you are a manager or executive whose company is heading down the complexity route, you might want to consider Mariotti's useful guidance on appropriate therapies.
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