Strategic Value Management : Stock Value Creation and the Management of the Firm

Innovative strategic management solutions for today's market __Strategic Value Management__ addresses common problems among business managers and other professionals involved in thinking about developing and managing organizations. In it, author Juan Pablo Stegmann integrates all strategic management and business strategy into an innovative standard that introduces key metrics to strategic management and stock value creation. He argues that most complex business issues can be reduced to the three dimensions of stock value creation-profits, sales growth, and capital-that are linked to three critical strategic management decisions-competition, innovation, and resources. His new approach indicates that every strategy has a clear dollar metric, which can measure its consequences of the strategies in terms of stock value. * Competitive and growth strategies are analyzed along with economic, financial, dynamic, and contingent approaches * Includes a companion CD-ROM, which contains Stegmann's proven model for strategic management and stock value creation * Ethical consequences of strategic decisions are introduced-showing how ethics are linked to long-term stock value creation * Explains the roots of the current financial crisis by examining the link between the financial world and strategic management, and proposes possible solutions For any looking to enhance their understanding of this discipline, __Strategic Value Management__ offers a new conceptual model for thinking about business strategy and its link to stock value creation.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction to Strategic Value Management (pages 1–12): Chapter 2 The Strategy?Value Model (pages 14–39): Chapter 3 Drivers of Capital (pages 41–83): Chapter 4 Resources Strategies (pages 84–106): Chapter 5 Drivers of Profits (pages 107–141): Chapter 6 Competitive Strategies (pages 142–183): Chapter 7 Drivers of Growth (pages 184–192): Chapter 8 Innovation Strategies (pages 193–212): Chapter 9 Strategic Planning and Control (pages 213–233): Chapter 10 Business Ethics (pages 234–260):

What if you were offered a new way to examine strategic management and business strategy, as well as a new way to integrate the existing theory under a new model? In recent decades, an amazing number of strategic management theories and models have been produced, but none that can synthesize all the existing theories—until now.

Offering an innovative strategic management solution for today's market, Strategic Value Management addresses common problems among business managers and other professionals involved in thinking about developing and managing organizations. Here, author Juan Pablo Stegmann introduces the strategy-value model, a revolutionary paradigm that streamlines strategic management and business strategy with stock value creation. Created by the author while working with McKinsey & Company on a strategic management/stock value creation problem for a large telephone and media conglomerate, Stegmann's unique strategy-value model integrates all strategic management and business strategy into a new standard that introduces key metrics to strategic management and stock value creation.

This original approach asserts that every strategy has a key dollar metric and proves that most complex business issues can be reduced to the three dimensions of stock value creation—profits, sales growth, and capital—and linked to three critical strategic management decisions: competition, innovation, and resources.

Proposing a comprehensive integration of thinking aimed at creating awareness of the full effects of managerial decisions, Strategic Value Management explores:

• How metrics help to apply critical thinking in strategic management
• Strategic planning and control, both the process and the final document
• How to build strategies with the goal of stock value creation
• Competitive strategies within industrial economics, and game theory
• How strategic management can be applied to non-business institutions
• The tools you need to develop organizational knowledge
• A new methodology to assess the firm's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
• Why strategic management and business ethics are inextricably connected

With Stegmann's proven strategy-value model, you will be able to incorporate most advance theories in a couple of hours and reduce complex business cases into dynamic one-page summaries that link strategies with stock value creation.

Creating a straightforward and insightful new conceptual model for thinking about business strategy and its link to stock value creation, Strategic Value Management simplifies and modernizes strategic management by integrating disciplines such as industrial economics, game theory, transaction costs economics, agency theory, the resource view of the firm, knowledge management, and intellectual capital, so that the entire organization can develop unique resources toward the ultimate goal of higher stock value creation.

Strategic Value Management addresses common problems among business managers and students actively involved in thinking about stock value creation. The book creates a new conceptual model for thinking about business strategy and its link to stock value creation, which is compellingly simple and insightful. .