Making Growth Work: How Companies Can Expand and Become More Efficient

by Burkhard Schwenker, Stefan Bötzel

Overview

Growth is the key goal of management. It's not just an indicator of a company's performance, but also the basis for its future success. But growth doesn't just mean getting bigger – it also means getting better. In other words, growth must be profitable, otherwise it destroys the company's value long term. And this is not the only challenge. Growth must also be made continuous. The traditional V-curve paradigm (first downsize, then grow) no longer applies. Today, companies must follow a parallel strategy of growth coupled with reorganization, in the sense of permanently increasing efficiency.

In Making Growth Work it is shown how companies can grow successfully in the long term. The authors present the results of extensive studies carried out by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants on the subject of corporate growth and use them as a basis to develop new concepts for sustainable profitable growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662519851
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/23/2016
Series:	Roland Berger-Reihe
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2007
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

The End of the V Curve.- Growth and Continuous Optimization — The Formulas for Sustainable Corporate Growth.- Overcoming the Limits to Growth — Exploiting Economies of Scale and Scope.- The Decentralized, Trust-Based Organization.- Decentralization — The Structural Basis for Profitable Growth.- The Trust-Based Organization — A New Management Model for Greater Growth and Efficiency.- Achieving the Willingness to Grow.- Innovation — The Engine of Growth.- Identifying Cash Potential and Investing in Growth.- Transforming for Growth — The Mobilizing Power of Change Management.- The Macroeconomic Perspective.- The Macroeconomic Perspective.- Epilogue.- Epilogue.