Great companies sustain growth through disciplined execution, not just good planning. Michael Treacy shows how to harness innovation and customer loyalty principles by linking strategy to organizational design.
Acclaimed Author: Treacy is the author of the Business Week best seller Double-Digit Growth: How Companies Achieve It – No Matter What, which presents a commonsense approach for achieving superior, profitable growth. He also co-authored the previous New York Times best seller The Discipline of Market Leaders. Treacy has published numerous articles over the past two decades in many popular magazines and journals and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review.
Successful Entrepreneur: Over the course of two decades as an entrepreneur, management consultant, and former MIT professor, Treacy built four firms that applied his ideas and brought new sources of customer value to his clients. His current ventures include, GEN3 Partners which employs several hundred people in St. Petersburg, Russia, and invents new products for American firms, First Help Financial which provides financing for new immigrants, and Doctor Card which is turning a visit to the doctor into a consumer product that the working uninsured can buy right off the shelf. Treacy applies his singular vision to his own ventures.
Sought-After Consultant: The best companies grow on purpose by building their talent, innovation capacity, and management routines in parallel with their plans and strategies. As a consultant, Treacy uses principles from his latest best seller, Double-Digit Growth, to challenge some of the world’s best-known companies – in financial services, telecommunications, industrial products, health care, and consumer goods – to diversify and grow profits.
Academic Thought Leader: A former professor of management at MIT Sloan School of Management, Mr. Treacy received his PhD from MIT and his engineering degree from the University of Toronto. Treacy maintains an active research staff and is currently engaged in a major research study to understand the discipline that allows certain companies to routinely achieve high performance – in growth, cost control, safety, or other important areas – while other firms struggle and achieve only uncertain results. Many companies have adopted the principles that Treacy has derived from his research and business experiences to drive their own business strategies and build competitive advantage.
