Becoming a Better Value Creator: How to Improve the Company's Bottom Line--and Your Own

by Anjan Y. Thakor

Overview

Why do some companies perform beyond expectation year after year while others start out strong but quickly fizzle? The answer lies in their ability to create long-term value. In this book, a leading professor at the top-ranked University of Michigan Business School presents five keys to creating value by incorporating the efforts of marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and finance in a strategy for continuing bottom-line success. His fresh look at what makes companies work shows managers how they can identify the factors that create value and use them to benefit their organizations and their own careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470462096
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/24/2008
Series:	J-B-UMBS Series , #49
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

ANJAN V. THAKOR is the Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Michigan Business School and the recipient of many distinguished teaching awards.

Table of Contents

The Challenge and the Joy of Being a Great Value Creator.

The Tools of Value Creation.

Being a More Effective Value Creator in Manufacturing and Procurement.

Being a More Effective Value Creator in the Marketing, Sales and Distribution, and New-Product Development Functions.

Being a More Effective Value Creator in the Human Resources Group.

Being a More Effective Value Creator in Finance.

Editorial Reviews

"Businesses across all industries are facing the challenge of the Internet disaggregating their value chains. In this context, Anjan Thakor provides managers with initial insight as to the drivers that create and destroy value." --Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters America Inc.

From the Publisher

Companies focused on continued profits for themselves and their shareholders don't require better managers, they need individuals who create value through incorporating the efforts of every employee, each taking ownership of his or her projects. Thakor (Banking and Finance, U. Michigan) outlines what's required of a value creator (specific philosophical and structural knowledge of the organization, personal goals, and a mastery of working quickly), as well as providing managers in marketing, manufacturing, human resources and finance specific guidelines for increasing value, to better both their companies and their careers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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