Profit from the source : transforming your business by putting suppliers at the core

Table of Contents: Part I: How you need to change 1. Start at the top Part II: How your company needs to change 2. Treat your suppliers as friends 3. Empower your "shoppers" 4. Go bionic Part III: How your company's ecosystem needs to change 5. Cut costs-fast 6. Dream big together 7. Settle for perfection 8. Share your tomorrows 9. Get quicker, faster-as one 10. Anticipate the inevitable

This book will give readers everywhere the strategies they need to build resilient new organization's in a world of globalized business and fragmenting supply chains. The authors offer a wake-up call and a new strategic blueprint to leaders everywhere. With vivid stories and in-depth case studies, they illustrate that no other business function offers the same holistic view of a company-from suppliers who provide the organization with raw materials and components through to consumers who buy the finished product. The authors show how it can help businesses generate phenomenal value from five other sources of competitive advantage that are critical to success-innovation, quality, sustainability, speed, and risk reduction. Drawing on BCG research and the authors' firsthand experience working with some of the world's leading companies-in high tech, automotive, consumer goods, and many other industries-Profit from the Source provides proven strategies to drive new bottom-line, and top-line, growth for the company