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"ING Direct—led by founding CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann—is here to stay and has begun to change the color of money from green to orange for a lot of Americans."—TOM CARPER, U.S. Senator, former governor of Delaware
"Kuhlmann and Philp show how innovation linked to a lived set of values and an uncompromising focus on the customer can power an organization to extraordinary success in a short period of time."—CHAD HOLLIDAY, Chairman and CEO, DuPont
"The Orange Code is a refreshing look at how the intangibles of leadership, corporate culture, brand, and customer experience can blend together to form a new class of assets."—CHRIS MATTHEWS, CEO, The Hay Group
"An incredible story of determination, focus, and maybe a little luck!"—KEVIN O'LEARY, Chairman, Gencap Funds Inc.
Acknowledgments.
ING Direct Today: The Business Case for Being a Rebel with a Cause.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 The Guy in the Cape.
Leading from the Front.
Chapter 2 Pixie Dust.
Powered by Purpose.
Chapter 3 The Dirty Dozen.
We Could Be Heroes.
Chapter 4 Clicking.
The Conundrum of Advertising.
Chapter 5 You Say You Want a Revolution?
The Opposite of a Bank.
Chapter 6 Saving the Savers.
Walking the Talk.
Chapter 7 It Takes a Village.
Building the Orange Brand Nation.
Chapter 8 The Money on the Table.
Winning the Battle, Losing the War.
Chapter 9 Steering by the Stars.
Beyond Managing.
Chapter 10 Herding Cats.
How to Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.
Epilogue Peeling the Orange.
A Guided Tour of the Orange Code, and What It Means to Us.
Appendix A : Orange Milestones — An ING Direct Time Line.
Appendix B : The Voice of Advocacy.
About the Authors.
Index.
elwoodde
Posted February 16, 2012
Written by the cofounders of ING Direct this is the story of the unlikely rise of the "non" bank that went against all conventional banking wisdom and has never looked back. Their battle cry was "save your money" and the whole company and brand was built around consumer advocacy.
I could easily see this book becoming required reading for business schools because of it's out of the box thinking and fresh business model.
Anyone with a mind for creative business thinking will love this book!
To say that ING Direct is not a traditional bank is a gross understatement. Most banks offer a bewildering multitude of financial products accompanied by add-on fees. Not ING Direct. It focuses on one thing: saving money in simple, high-interest savings accounts. Traditional banks operate from formal offices with tellers behind bullet-resistant glass and managers seated in cubicles, but ING Direct conducts much of its banking business from sleek cafés that offer coffee and luxury brands of tea. In each of its branches in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, it offers customers light snacks, free computer stations, conversation-zone seating and kitschy ING Direct merchandise. In this book, two imaginative business geniuses, Arkadi Kuhlmann, ING Direct's iconoclastic "CEO of Savings," and Bruce Philp, co-founder of GWP Brand Engineering, the firm's marketing agency, explain how they started this innovative "un-bank," how it operates and what its guiding principles are. Perhaps no institution could be quite as rosy as this insider-written corporate bio suggests, but if you want to shake things up in your corner of the professional world, getAbstract suggests this idiosyncratic book about a bright, bold business.
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"ING Direct—led by founding CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann—is here to stay and has begun to change the color of money from green to orange for a lot of Americans."—TOM CARPER, U.S. Senator, former governor of Delaware
"Kuhlmann and Philp show how innovation linked to a lived set of values and an uncompromising focus on the customer can power an organization to extraordinary success in a short period of time."—CHAD HOLLIDAY, ...