Cracking the Value Code: How Successful Businesses Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy

by Richard E.S. Boulton, Steve M. Samek, Barry D. Liebert, et al.

Book Overview

How Can Your Company Crack The Value Code? The authors of this book suggest an answer. Organizations thrive or fail based on how they design, invest in, and manage their entire portfolios of value for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0066620635
• ISBN13: 9780066620633
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good job and buono fortuna with your work!

Well done. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the dynamics of enterprise value today. The book is seriously under valued (priced) for the IP it offers the reader. What a bargin?It flows well and offers insight into the thinking of valuation beyond a formula approach, plug-it-in software programs and hobbiest appraisers. AA & Co. hits a home run with the publication of this work.

The corporate GENOME decoded!

Finally, someone has taken the time to write a business book that makes sense to the people who make the wheels of business turn: Everybody. This book explains how tech stocks can rally with negative earnings while solid fundamentals can't hold up some blue chips. It's all about HOW you value a company! Intellectual and other intangible assets don't have a place on the balance sheet, yet they're worth a tremendous amount to a company's value. How is this so? How is this measured? The answers are in this book and it's a fascinating read.

Good Emphasis on Creating New Business Models

Creating and implementing vastly improved business models that deliver more value for customers, slash prices, and cause costs to plummet for everyone is a keystone activity for the 21st century. This book deserves praise for making that point. The examples are well selected and make the indicated points well. I would particularly encourage you to consider the Schwab, GE, Dell and Williams Companies examples. They will help you shift your mindset.Although the authors certainly turned their attention to the task of helping you create that new and improved business model, I think the efforts fell short. First, they don't really share with you how difficult it is to design and implement a new business model inside of an existing company. I regularly interview the 100 CEOs whose stocks have grown the most in the past 3 years, and they usually think that creating new and improved business models is beyond what they and their companies are capable of. Second, the failure rate on new business models is enormous. Some estimate that less than 1 in a thousand succeeds to any significant measure. Just look at how many on-line business to consumer sites are struggling now. Third, the book doesn't really address the business processes that the example companies used to reach their new models. In essence, you don't get a useful best practice case history to build from. So the cases are more like anecdotes to convince you that you can succeed. An improved business model every 3 years would be great, but they don't grow on trees. A better bet would be to develop one improved business model that doesn't require you to change all of the time. That can make you an irresitible growth enterprise. You'll have to look elsewhere to get all of the guidance you need to implement this book's advice to create a new business model.

amazing

this book is excellent for all learners interested in the new ways to survive in the world as it is today. There are fabulous examples on how other compnays have made there way in the new exonomy. This book explains what the best business means and many other interesting facts.

Compelling, Surprising Success Stories from the New Economy

The New Economy is apparently NOT just for the dot.coms of the world! There is hope for every brick and mortar, "old economy" business to rise to the challenges of the New Economy by leveraging all of their assets creatively and powerfully. This book presents an interesting model of how organizations create value for their customers, and goes out of its way to illustrate the rationale behind some of the bloated market caps we've all observed. An excellent, case-story based text, with a compelling view of how businesses can succeed in this brave new world of rapid hyper-change and radical super-competitiveness. A delight for both business practitioners, consultants and investors alike. A MUST READ for every corporate CEO. Also, a super-easy read....I did it in little over one hour! The wide margins and embedded graphics make it easy to jot down notes for future reference.