Jim Champy, Telling world how to Outsmart! your competitors

About Jim Champy

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. Champy's latest book - OUTSMART! - was published in April of 2008, 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.

Champy's first book, REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, sold more than 3 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. The book demonstrates how cutting-edge businesses can find greater efficiency by breaking down walls between its customers, suppliers and competitors.

At Perot Systems, Champy provides strategic guidance to the company's team of business and management consultants and plays a pivotal role in furthering the firm's goal to create an approach to services design and delivery unlike any in the industry.

Prior to joining Perot Systems, Champy was Chairman and CEO of CSC Index, the management consulting arm of Computer Science Corporation. He was one of the original founders of Index, a $200 million consulting practice that was acquired by CSC in 1988. Under Champy, the company's consulting practice grew at a rate of 25 percent a year.

Champy earned his BS in 1963 and his MS in Civil Engineering in 1965 from MIT. Anxious to broaden his education, he attended Boston College Law School, where he became deeply involved in the intellectual life of the school and served on The Law Review as a writer and as an editor of The Annual Review of Massachusetts Law. He received his JD in 1968 and immediately passed the bar exam.

Champy is a member of the MIT Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees, and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Boston College Law School. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Inc.