In the mid-80s, when Jack Welch launched GE x10 he said: I would love to have a management team that really understood the cvsx10=bvs equation. Its the value-added role in the management process.
At that time GE was a USD35 billion manufacturer of everything from locomotives to light bulbs. By the time Jack left in 2001 GE market value had maximised to USD484 billion making it the most valuable company in the world.
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Google. In February 2013, WIRED Magazines Steven Levy interviewed Larry Page of Google and wrote:
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that youre basically doing the same thing as everybody else. Thats why Page expects his employees to create products and services that are 10 times better than the competition.
MICHAEL HEWITT-GLEESON designed GE x10 for Jack Welch and is acknowledged as the father of x10 thinking. He is the author of The x10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten! (Prentice Hall, 2000). Michael talks about x10 thinking here …
There is always a better way of doing things, we have to be able to escape the CVS, the way of doing this to repeat ten time at least, then come up a BVS.
Hi Michael. I took your course way back in 1996 and loved it and it helped me break out of a CVS to something much better. Right now I’m in a similar situation in that I am stuck, looking for a BVS. I don’t usually like to repeat lessons but was wondering if you had any advice about breaking into a new BVS–maybe over the past 13 years since taking your course you or someone you know about has developed something new. –David Rosdeitcher
I was listening to someone this morning chatting about ‘the answer’ always being on a different level.
escape + search (at a different level/perspective) and thinking evolves into a bvs
I constantly see this when I read through my MediaPost.com ezines that give me BETTER ways to SEO, SEM, advertising, Social Networking. etc.
Dont be afraid to change the past way of carrying out tasks. Take time out to consider alternatives and don’t be afraid to give it a go.
There is always a better way of doing things, we have to be able to escape the CVS, the way of doing this to repeat ten time at least, then come up a BVS.
Hi Michael. I took your course way back in 1996 and loved it and it helped me break out of a CVS to something much better. Right now I’m in a similar situation in that I am stuck, looking for a BVS. I don’t usually like to repeat lessons but was wondering if you had any advice about breaking into a new BVS–maybe over the past 13 years since taking your course you or someone you know about has developed something new. –David Rosdeitcher
This training has shown me there is awlays a better view and that one should just look for it always
That thinking is a skill, it can be refined with daily practice.Thinking can take you places so if you wish to go, just practice.
x10 is good measurable mechanism, its specific. You dont say ‘think’ you say come up with x10 cvs2bvs please
I was listening to someone this morning chatting about ‘the answer’ always being on a different level.
escape + search (at a different level/perspective) and thinking evolves into a bvs
nice…new thing to try…on the thinking…repetitivley
True thinking is divinely inspoired from sources that come from outside ourselves- aka revelation