The Effective Organization: The Nuts and Bolts of Business Value

As a manager, your job is adding value to your organization. But business value is much more than the product you sell or the service you offer; it is built upon the relationship you nurture with your clients. Traditional methods of measuring business value have focused on cost and efficiency but can information technology be designed to offer a different vision of reality?
Lee Schlenker and Alan Matcham have devised the Business Value Matrix™ , a unique tool that will help you focus on factors other than time and money, on the quality of interaction rather than the quantity of transactions, and on human motivation and innovation as the primary source of sustainable competitive advantage.
Drawing on the authors’ own experiences of business success and failure, The Effective Organization provides inspiration and guidance for everyone searching for the means to add measurable value to both their career and their organization.
"I believe this book represents an important milestone in our understanding of how business value is evolving and addresses the challenge of business value whilst delivering tested strategies to build a more effective business organization."
—Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, Oracle EMEA

Spis treści:
Foreword by Sergio Giacoletto.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1: In Search of Business Value.
Chapter 2: The House of Mirrors.
Chapter 3: Is What You Measure What You Get?
Chapter 4: It Takes Two (or More) to Tango.
Chapter 5: Going Around in Circles.
Chapter 6: The Joined–up Economy.
Chapter 7: Soldiers of the Shadows.
The Effective Organization.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Lee Schlenker is the Principal of LHS Technologies, a consulting company that works with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and the European Commission on the challenges of collaborative technologies, IT product ivity and e–education. Dr Schlenker is also Professor of Business Systems at EM Lyon and a recipient of the EDSF prize for the use of technology in teaching.  He currently teaches various courses in England, Finland, France and The Netherlands.
Allan Matcham is Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa for the Oracle Corporation.  Working with some of the world′s pre–eminent business schools, he is responsible for delivering advanced thought leadership programmes designed to identify how technology delivers new forms of business value.
With extensive experience of the IT, leisure and financial service industries, Alan has held a variety of senior marketing, general management and consulting positions within blue chip companies in both Europe and the Far East. He joined Oracle in 1997 as Head of the Organisational Change Management practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa, responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of technology–based solutions.

Okładka tylna:
As a manager, your job is adding value to your organization. But business value is much more than the product you sell or the service you offer; it is built upon the relationship you nurture with your clients. Traditional methods of measuring business value have focused on cost and efficiency but can information technology be designed to offer a different vision of reality?
Lee Schlenker and Alan Matcham have devised the Business Value Matrix™ , a unique tool that will help you focus on factors other than time and money, on the quality of interaction rather than the quantity of transactions, and on human motivation and innovation as the primary source of sustainable competitive advantage.
Drawing on the authors’ own experiences of business success and failure, The Effective Organization provides inspiration and guidance for everyone searching for the means to add me asurable value to both their career and their organization.
"I believe this book represents an important milestone in our understanding of how business value is evolving and addresses the challenge of business value whilst delivering tested strategies to build a more effective business organization."
—Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, Oracle EMEA