Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for ... (ISBN 0471648558)

A "ROSE":
Finally! A readable book that brings the Harvard Balanced Scorecard and Economic Value Added to the private business owner. Only 193 pages, Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value brings a specific and focused Five Step Process to making more money. The Process incorporates a Return on Strategic Effectiveness (ROSE) framework utilizing all tangible and intangible assets to fullest productivity. Implement this Process and your ROSE will be leading your P & L.

Marvellous Book on Benchmarking:
This is a marvellous book on the valuation methodology for enabling companies to enhance and maximise shareholder value through the use of strategic benchmarking. The book is well written in simple/plain English that should make it easy to follow and understand by any reader. The book presents critical insights into how companies can enhance shareholder value. It arms managers with tools that enable them to make decisions that facilitate growth and create value. This is achieved through clear and practical methodologies and tips that can be employed to maximise company value. Case studies reinforce the message and help the reader to understand how to practically implement the concepts highlighted in the book. Among the concepts and methodologies that the reader can benefit from the book include the use of the balanced scorecard, performance measurement, and economic valuation and fraud prevention techniques. The book is recommended to anyone who needs to learn about benchmarking.

A very thorough primer for business strategy analysis:
The breadth of the book's approach is quite impressive, especially as it is contained in only 193 pp with notes etc. I am grateful for the writers defining out so much detail in their step-by-step approach. It really gives context to what is involved in the value drivers of the businenss. The market is screaming for tools to handle the areas of intangible value and leadership decision making still and while SBfV talks about it in theory they still are a voice in the wilderness saying we need some innovation in the near future. There is nothing in this book that a business owner cannot take immedialtely and put into practice. A good read; simple in delivery, very comprehensive in scope and well worth the time if you want to understand all the options there are to look at for determining value in the eneterprise. Well done.