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Simplify

How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed
By Greg Lockwood and Richard Koch
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Simplify by Greg Lockwood and Richard Koch explores how companies achieve extraordinary success by simplifying their business models. It delves into two primary types of simplification: price, which focuses on cost-effective solutions, and proposition, which centres on making products easier to understand and use. The book uses real-world examples to illustrate how simplification can lead to significant market dominance and financial success.
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The bestselling author of The 80/20 Principle reveals the powerful principle of simplifying as a strategy for any company to create new markets and soaring profits.

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For the past forty years, Richard Koch has worked to uncover simple and elegant principles that govern business success. To qualify, a principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can reliably apply it to generate extraordinary results.

Working with venture capitalist Greg Lockwood and supported by specially commissioned research from OC&C Strategy Consultants, Koch has now found one elemental principle that unites extraordinarily valuable companies: simplifying. Some firms simplify on price—consider budget flights stripped of all extras that still take you from A to B—creating new, huge mass markets for their wares. Others, such as Apple, simplify their proposition, bringing a beautifully easy-to-use product or service to a large premium market.

How can your business become a simplifier? With case studies of some of the most famous firms of the last hundred years, from finance to fast food, this enlightening book shows how to analyse any company's potential to simplify and enrich the world.

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Simplify by Greg Lockwood and Richard Koch is highly praised for its impactful insight into achieving business success by simplifying a company's offerings to enhance appeal and usefulness. The authors successfully illustrate their principle through straightforward writing and engaging stories. This book is lauded for delivering practical advice, making complex strategic ideas accessible to a broader audience.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349411866

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 July 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Piatkus Books

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 199.0mm

Height: 130.0mm

Weight: 265g

Pages: 336

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Business Strategy & Negotiation Greg Lockwood Non-Fiction Richard Koch

About the Author

Richard Koch (Author)

Richard Koch is a millionaire entrepreneur who has started or turned round a number of successful companies, including Belgo Restaurants, Filofax, Zoffany Hotels and Betfair. He is also the author of 13 highly acclaimed non-fiction books.

Greg Lockwood (Author)

Greg Lockwood is a partner at venture capital firm Piton Capital. He has a Masters of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and is the co-author of SUPERCONNECT with Richard Koch.

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