Value Drivers, Mass Market The Manager's Guide for Driving Corporate Value Creation

by Scott, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780471861218
• ISBN10: 0471861219
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-21
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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

Author Biography

Mark C. Scott is Executive Vice President of Lake Capital Management, a principal investment group specialising in investing in professional service firms. He formerly held the same position at Lighthouse Global Network, a global marketing services group. He was previously an Operations Director at WPP Group plc and prior to this has worked for a number of years as a management consultant in Europe and the USA. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He is the author of Value Drivers and Reinspiring the Corporation.

Table of Contents

Why are Firms in Business in the First Place?

Segmentation.

Ranking SBUs.

Corporate Strategy Revisited.

How Well is the Firm Doing?

Understanding the Market Context.

Core Competencies.

Core Competencies Revisited.

Back to Corporate Strategy.

Back to the Bottom Line.

Conclusion.

Appendices.

Select Bibliography.

Index.