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

Understanding Multiple Value-Creation Perspectives

Different functional units within an organization often work at cross-purposes because they have different perspectives about how value is created. This difference in perspective is unavoidable because of the different nature of their activities.

Although this point may seem obvious enough, the issue of multiple perspectives on value creation is actually quite subtle and complex. Here a powerful new construct called the Wholonics model comes in handy, as it gives you a way to categorize value-creation activities within an organization and to understand how leadership style, resource allocation, ...