Emerald exclusive: Jim Champy column

Jim Champy: incisive comment on today's business challenges

Jim Champy, Chairman of Perot Systems’ consulting practice, is recognized throughout the world for his work on leadership and management issues and on organizational change and business reengineering.

His first book, Reengineering The Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, sold more than three million copies and spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list. He is also the author of the best-seller, Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership, which was recognized by Business Week as one of the top ten best business books of 1995.

With Professor Nitin Norhia of the Harvard Business School, Champy is the co-author of The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey and Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing Business Change. His columns and articles appear in such magazines as Forbes, ComputerWorld and Sales and Marketing Management.

Champy’s book, X-Engineering The Corporation: Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age (Warner Books), goes beyond reengineering to show managers how to cross boundaries into the next frontier of improved business performance. Champy’s latest book – OUTSMART! – shows how to achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition. Champy reveals surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years. Drawing on the strategies of today’s “high velocity” companies, he identifies six powerful new ways to compete in even the toughest marketplace.

At Perot Systems, Champy consults extensively with senior executives of multinational companies seeking to improve business performance. His approach centres on helping leaders achieve business results through four distinct, yet overlapping areas – business strategy, management and operations, organizational development and change, and information technology.