Profit Patterns : 30 Ways to Anticipate & Profit from Strategic Forces Reshaping your Business

Profit Patterns creates a set of simple, informative instructions of over 35 ways in which profit happens and accompanies those illustrations with hands–on, short explanations. The book is designed to provide the reader with a new set of strategic tools for understanding and creating profit. The book moves from looking at the changing complexity and pace of business in the modern age and how the rules of business have changed, to presenting a range of profit patterns from which the reader can begin to "build a repertoire of moves to consider in every situation...the process of identifying and understanding patterns needs to become part of the mental process of every manager". The identification of profit patterns is then turned into practical strategic moves that can be adopted by any organization. The final chapter shows how beginning to think in new ways will produce more sustained value creation and greater financial results.

Profit Patterns is more than theory, as Slywotzky shows how to apply the ideas that made companies like GE and Intel so successful. His examples will appeal to a very broad audience of business people, showing both big and small businesses how to stay ahead of the competition.