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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. —Sam Walton

What do your customers really want? "More for less," of course! They want more value, more service, more consistent delivery, more accuracy, and ever more responsiveness.They want less hassle, less bureaucracy, less sales pressure -- and, they want to pay "less" for this "more." Unless you can provide your customers with "more for less," you can be assured they will find someone else who can, and sooner rather than later. There’s no magic to providing more for less, but it requires a management mindset that’s different from the norm--and that’s precisely what this book is about. The findings in the 2004-2005 Mindset Study, based on exclusive interviews with frontline executives, went into the making of this book. With clarity and insight, Spanyi has penned the definitive guide for business leaders who are determined to deliver more for less to their customers and shareholders.
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Andrew Spanyi’s More for Less is the best source of contemporary thinking about business process management. It’s eminently clear and practical, with nary a faddish or false word. This book is just what companies need to improve their operations. --Thomas H. Davenport,President’s Distinguished Professor, Babson College and Academic Director, Process Management Research Center

The author has provided clarification on how enterprise processes need to be closely aligned with a company's core vision and business strategies in order to drive step change improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. Spanyi's book helps to "connect the dots" for many leaders who may be confused or not convinced of the value of integrating strategy, processes, metrics, improvement projects, and IT into driving improved bottom line results. --Bill Cantwell,Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Air Products

Andrew Spanyi has done it again. I consider myself a seasoned facilitator of improving the business using a combination of Quality strategies and tools. When I read Andrew's book I found myself saying "I knew that" a lot. More frequently I found myself saying, "I never thought of that." His unique way of focusing on Business Process Excellence and the numerous examples of ways to measure your business is a must read. --Jim Pearson,VP of Customer Quality and Six Sigma, EMC Corporation

Process is the competitive battleground of today, and how an organization thinks about process, or process orientation, is the sustainable competitive advantage for the 21st century. This book is a great combination of theory and practical examples that can accelerate the development of this new way of managing. --Dr. Kevin McCormack,President, DRK Research

During the last twenty years, the business process mindshare of business leaders has waxed and waned. However, Andrew Spanyi has remained steadfast and compelling in his advocacy of the central role processes play in revenue growth, cost reduction, quality improvement, and time compression. Process improvement tools are well-chronicled elsewhere; More for Less adds an important tile to the mosaic by describing why and how leaders can use enterprise-wide process management as a strategic weapon. --Alan Brache,Author of How Organizations Work: Taking A Holistic Approach to Organization Health and co-author of Implementation: How to Transform Strategic Initiatives into Blockbuster Results and co-author of Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart.

Finally, a sensible book on the conversion to process thinking for managers. Not only is it down to earth and filled with good examples, it recognizes that sometimes what looks easy is hard to implement, due not to its complexity, but to stubborn managerial mindsets. This book will help you change the mindset in your organization --Allan R. Cohen,Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership, Babson College, co-author, Influence without Authority

This thoughtful and persuasive book should be read by everybody in today's process community. In addition, it's a well-structured and comprehensive introduction to the power of process for anyone not familiar with this critical perspective of business. This book puts process on the map. --Steve Stanton,Independent speaker, author, and consultant. One of the pioneers of process-centered innovation.

This important book will provide leaders with clear direction for their process management initiatives. Spanyi has an amazing talent to summarize complex issues, make convincing observations, and provide guidance. More for Less may become one of the most important sources of knowledge for managers with a desire to increase the process orientation of an organization. --Dr. Michael Rosemann,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Andrew Spanyi hits the mark in More for Less. He nails the key elements of process management in today's business environment and challenges accepted thinking previously assumed to be gospel in process improvement circles. More for Less is an excellent piece of work and a "must read" from one of the thought leaders in the world of Business Process Management. --Stephen G. Smith,Senior Vice President & Managing Executive, Rummler-Brache Group

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #833548 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 196 pages

About the Author
ANDREW SPANYI is internationally recognized for his work on Business Process Management. He has over three decades of management and consulting practice experience. He has managed or consulted on over 130 major improvement projects and has participated in the development and delivery of dozens of sales and management training programs.Andrew’s areas of practice leadership include Business Process Improvement and Management, Strategy Clarification, Performance Measurement, and Change Management.He has delivered keynote speeches at conferences in North America and Europe and has published articles with a broad cross-section of print and e-magazines. He is a member of the research team at the Babson Process Management Research Center, the chair of the education committee for The Association of Business Process Management Professionals, and an editorial board member with the BPM Institute.He is the author of Business Process Management is a Team Sport: Play ! It to Win!

Customer Reviews

Want to adjust your business? Have to read this!
Andrew did an excellent job with this book. It is very easy to read, but very depth in treating the subjects. I strongly reccommend it to top managers, consultants and students. It presents how and why to make the transition from functional approach to process approach in order to have a better understanding and control on the business. This is a vital concept, which if is well understood helps companies be flexible, focus on results and be able design results oriented actions. Presents the advantages of enabling technology in better managing business processes in order to have business running the technology and not viceversa. At the end some useful ideas on how to find and to define your business competitive advantage in order to stand up from the crowd and to gain repetitive orders and satisfied customers. The whole book is considering create customer value as ultimate business goal, business value coming as a consequence. Each chapter has a questions list to determine what is the status of your company in order to improve different business areas.

Top managers will find great ideas about how to restructure or to improve their business processes. How to share power and control in order to be more effective and efficient.

Consultants have a great chance to see connections between process management, project management, performance measurement and technology.

Students have a useful tool to better understand the big bicture and connection between it components. Each chapter has a refference list for furture reading.

A welcome and instructive reference recommended to anyone who has a managerial responsibility
To succeed in today's volatile and increasingly competitive global marketplace, a company must provide their customers with what Andrew Spanyi describes as "more for less". That is, more value, service, consistent delivery, accuracy, responsiveness, and quality for their purchasing dollar. At the same time the customer also demands less hassle, bureaucracy, and sales pressure in their purchasing process. Spanyi drew upon the 2004-2005 Mindset Study in writing "More For Less: The Power Of Process Management", to provide business managers with up-to-date information in support of shifting conventional but dysfunctional notions of strategy, leadership, growth, mergers and acquisitions, with an improved and effective organizational design for their corporate decision making, the role of technology in achieving and maintaining a competitive edge, the measuring of targeting goals, and an integrated approach as illustrated by such corporate examples as Caterpillar Inc. and the Xerox Corporation. Enhanced with the inclusion of appendices ('The Judicious Use of Reference Frameworks' and 'A Business Process Orientation Survey Instrument'), an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a "user friendly" index, "More For Less" is a welcome and instructive reference recommended to anyone who has a managerial responsibility for their company or corporation's bottom line.

Much needed ammunition for the process practitioner
This is a great book to give to any senior executive. It will provide them with a practical understanding of process management and what they need to do to change from a functional management model. Andrew backs up his description of effective process management with research results and quotes from senior executives that helps put it all in perspective.