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Focus
The Future of Your Company Depends on It
Focus (1996) describes how corporations in America lose profits by focusing on growth. It explains what the leading management strategies of corporations are and why they are wrong. Additionally, it elaborates on what strategies corporations should adopt instead, and how they can focus their company for greater success.
- Anyone managing a company that they want to perform better
- Anyone interested in why certain companies succeed and others fail
Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He founded a successful consulting firm and has written a number of bestselling books, such as The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR.
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Focus
The Future of Your Company Depends on It
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Focus (1996) describes how corporations in America lose profits by focusing on growth. It explains what the leading management strategies of corporations are and why they are wrong. Additionally, it elaborates on what strategies corporations should adopt instead, and how they can focus their company for greater success.
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The primary objective of companies is usually growth.
Whether it’s a family-run bakery wanting to open a second location or a massive fast-food company aiming for total market domination, it seems that the one thing common to all businesses is their desire to grow.
But have you ever questioned why companies are so fixated on growth?
One reason is that growing will give them cost advantages.
Certain company costs are fixed – they don’t change if the company increases its production – so the costs per unit decrease as the amount of units produced increases.
For example, a bakery has variable costs for flour, yeast and other ingredients, and they vary according to the amount of bread it produces. It also has fixed costs, like the money it spent on its oven.
Let’s say the oven cost $500 and the ingredients for one loaf of bread cost $1. If the bakery produces 100 loaves of bread, the fixed costs per loaf of bread are $500/100 = $5. So with the variable costs of $1, one loaf of bread would cost the bakery $6 if the total amount of loaves produced was 100. If the amount of loaves produced was 500, the costs for one loaf would sink to $2.
Obviously, such cost advantages give companies a competitive edge. With lower costs, their products can be sold at more attractive prices, thus more customers are likely to buy them.
Another reason that companies seek growth is that managers want to exploit the benefits that size brings (e.g., cost advantages). Naturally, managers want their company to make big profits, so it’s only logical they’d aim to increase revenues and decrease costs.
This is why managers make growth the primary objective of companies. Take, for example, Wayne Calloway, who said during his time as CEO of PepsiCo that they’re fully committed to high (15 percent) long-term growth. To this end, PepsiCo focused on growth, and Calloway and his predecessors worked towards this goal by buying a number of companies.
Inhalt
- The primary objective of companies is usually growth.
- Being a large, ever-growing company doesn’t guarantee success.
- Companies become unfocused by management strategies aimed at growth.
- Globalization helps companies to expand their business on a global scale, but this can cause a company to lose focus.
- Specialization is an effective strategy to focus your company and improve performance.
- Specialized companies perform better because customers view them as providers of high quality.
- New technologies change the market, so you should be prepared to adapt your company’s focus accordingly.
- A single company needs a single focus, while a conglomerate needs a multi-step focus.
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