Strategy for the Corporate Level: Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions, 2nd Edition

Chapter Ten How to Identify Sources of Added Value for Your Company

The last three chapters have described sources of added value and sources of subtracted value. We also provided, at the end of the added value chapters, some questions managers can ask themselves to challenge ideas they have for adding value. In this chapter, we will describe some analytical tools that managers can use to help identify sources of added value in their own companies. We devote a chapter to this topic because managers are often looking for additional sources of added value, or wish to confirm that they are not overlooking opportunities to help their businesses improve. We will also provide some tools for summarising sources of added value so that they get ...