Value Drivers: The Manager′s Guide for Driving Corporate Value Creation: Managers Framework for Identifying the Drivers of Corporate Value Creation - Softcover

Scott, Mark C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471978787 ISBN 13: 9780471978787

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

Mark C. Scott value drivers How does my company actually work? How do I become a better manager? How can I fit these pieces together to get ahead? The Manager's Guide to Driving Corporate Value Creation These questions are answered in this book. Mark Scott has created an easy-to-understand visual framework and the practical tools that will enhance any manager's performance. He teaches you how to recognize what your own organization does well and what it does badly. The tools provided will help you make crucial improvements in your own area of responsibility within your organization. "In a decade where most management books wax lyrical on consulting fads for the boardroom, it focuses on the solid, unglamorous but essential ground of helping managers and employees diagnose performance and take action for themselves." Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group PLC "Effective strategy is something that is lived everyday by managers at the coal face through a continual process of analysis, learning, refinement and application. This book is a useful primer for time-pressed managers who want to know how to add value to their companies' strategies." Professor John Quelch, Dean, London Business School "Our business is founded on smart, independent thinking professionals helping clients solve complex problems. Any book that can give people better tools to understand these problems is useful. Unlike many I read, this is a useful book." Terence M. Graunke, Chairman, Lighthouse Holdings Inc

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From the Back Cover

The firms that thrive over the next decade will be those that focus their resources most aggressively behind the activities which drive value creation for their shareholders. This book is essential reading for any manager who wants to understand which of their firm's activities drive value and which activities destroy it. This is not a book for the grand boardroom strategist. It is a book for day-to-day managers who want a concise framework for: * Analysing how a firm creates shareholder value * Identifying and measuring which activities drive value and which destroy it in their own firm * Supporting their actions for instituting change to enhance value creation The Value Drivers framework provides an invaluable tool for those firms who are empowering their managers to make better decisions for themselves about how to focus their energies, rather than relying on grand stratagems and management consultants to deliver improvement. If "downsizing" and "reengineering" were the war-cry of the 1990s, "value drivers" will be the cri-de-guerre of successful firms in the next millennium. "In a decade where most management books wax lyrical on consulting fads for the boardroom, it focuses on the solid, unglamorous but essential ground of helping managers and employees diagnose performance and take action for themselves."

Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer WPP Group PLC "Effective strategy is something that is lived everyday by managers at the coal face through a continual process of analysis, learning, refinement and application. This book is a useful primer for time-pressed managers who want to know how to add value to their companies' strategies."

Professor John Quelch, Dean London Business School

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471978787
• ISBN 13: 9780471978787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272