The Blue Line Imperative
eBook - ePub

The Blue Line Imperative

What Managing for Value Really Means

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eBook - ePub

The Blue Line Imperative

What Managing for Value Really Means

About this book

A groundbreaking guide to making profitable business decisions

Do you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing the payoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinking about value all wrong? According to the authors of this groundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance that you have. Using examples from leading companies worldwide, they explain why every decision a company makes either creates value or detracts from it, and why, if they hope to survive and thrive in today's increasingly competitive global marketplace, company leaders must make value-creation the centrepiece of every business decision. Authors Kaiser and Young have dubbed this approach "Blue-Line Management," (BLM), and in this entertaining, highly accessible book, they delineate BLM principles and practices and show you how to implement them in your company.

  • Explains why the failure to properly define and assess value often makes it difficult for the people who manage businesses to effect long-term success
  • Offers guidelines for making the satisfaction of customer needs and wants—i.e. value creation—the driver of all business activities
  • The authors are respected academics at INSEAD, the world's largest and most respected graduate business school, with campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East

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Information

Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781118510889
eBook ISBN
9781118510902
Edition
1
Subtopic
Management

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter One: What Is Value?
  9. Chapter Two: The Global Capital Market
  10. Chapter Three: The Opportunity Cost of Capital
  11. Chapter Four: The Expected Future Free Cash Flows
  12. Chapter Five: Blue Line Management
  13. Chapter Six: Shifting to Blue
  14. Chapter Seven: The Hazard of Growth
  15. Chapter Eight: Creating a Blue Line Culture
  16. Chapter Nine: Trust and Hierarchy in Blue Line Management
  17. Chapter Ten: Value and Decision-Making
  18. Chapter Eleven: Getting Net Present Value Right
  19. Chapter Twelve: Becoming a Blue Line Manager
  20. Appendix: Blue Line Questions
  21. Index