Smart Customers, Stupid Companies : Why Only Intelligent Companies Will Thrive, and How to Be One of Them

"This is a real page-turner! Hinshaw and Kasanoff provide a quick and thrilling tour of the immediate future of business. So read it and heed it, folks, because it just doesn’t come any more direct or compelling than this!"
-- Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., authors of EXTREME TRUST: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage

Last decade, companies strove to be great. Now they need to act as smart as the customers they wish to serve. Why? Because acting dumber than your customers is not a sustainable business model.

This visually arresting book not only challenges business leaders to profit from the wave of disruptive innovation making customers smarter, but it also presents an actionable five-step plan for doing just that.

Hinshaw and Kasanoff explain that disruptive innovation is "already providing individuals with tools more advanced, in many cases, than the most sophisticated commercial enterprises had just five years ago," and argue that "established firms will need to reinvent themselves and disrupt their own industries to stay alive."

"So energizing it actually made my skin tingle and my pulse race. Lot of books prod you to think about the future; this book is like a punch in the face. I'm fortunate I had the opportunity to read this before my competitors."
-- Chris Zane, Founder & President, Zane's Cycles, and author of REINVENTING THE WHEEL: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers

"It's a fact: Technology-enabled customers are getting smarter every day, while companies mired in the same old ways of doing business just come off as stupider and stupider. Do not let that happen to you. Instead, follow Hinshaw's and Kasanoff's prescription to ride the waves of today's perfect storm of disruptive innovations to create digitally infused experiences that anticipate the needs of your individual customers."
-- B. Joseph Pine II, co-author, THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY and INFINITE POSSIBILITY: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier

"We as business leaders, are often so worried about our competitors we often forget about our customers. Kasanoff and Hinshaw remind us that not only are our customers important, they are smarter and know more than we know. The book is an easy read and stuffed with ideas that can be implemented on Monday morning."
-- Michael Le Goff, CEO, Plessy Semiconductors

"Entrepreneurs looking for the next big thing need to grab a copy of our book, and this one, and fast."
-- Bob Dorf, co-author with Steve Blank of THE START UP OWNER'S MANUAL: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company