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Charan, Ram, 55–56
Chicken Soup for the Soul (Canfield and Hansen), 46–47
China Manufacturing Network,   LLC, 64–65, 72, 132
Churchill, Winston, 39, 79
Cigarran, Thomas, 92
circumvention test, 168–69
Cisco Systems, 166
Citibank, 160
Citrin, James, 179
CleanAirGardening.com, 26–27, 42, 89, 149, 176
Clifton, Donald, 11–12, 99–101, 104
collaboration, ASPs and, 61
Collins, Jim, 40–41, 110–11
communications services, Internet-based, 44
Competing for the Future (Hamel and Prahalad), 96–97, 98
competition
    ASPs and, 61, 83–84
    complacency and, 189
    core competence and, 96–104
    extreme, 29–30
    focus and, 192
    monitoring of, 153, 190
    publicity and unwanted,  128–32
    reinvention and, 190
    response from, 92
    60% Rule and, 121–22
    speed of smaller companies as asset in, 83–84
    time invested in studying, 115
    vulnerability test for, 172–73
complacency, 189–90
complexity, as failure warning sign, 188–89
complex task management, 44–45, 61
comprehensive service, highly focused service vs., 191–93
computer services, Web site resources for, 207
computing power (Moore’s law), 58. See also Internet-based services;
    plug-and-play economy; Web sites
Conference Board, 1
constant reinvention, 51, 189–90
contingency plan, 171
control, 4, 7, 8, 186
core competence, 96–104
    identification of, 99–104
    repeatability and, 105–8
    skills of, 96–97
    TheraSense and, 156–57
corporate organization, unbundling and specialization in, 70–79
Costiglio, Peter, 178
costs, 168–69. See also revenues
Creative Habit, The: Learn It and  Use It for Life (Tharp), 203
credibility, 197
credit cards, 159–60, 197
CRMIQ, 61
Curry, Greg, 73
customer-relationship management (CRM) services, ASPs and, 61, 65
customers
    building base of, 19, 23, 133, 161
    demonstrated product appeal to, 91–92

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