Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers [Hardcover]

Tony Hope (Author), Jeremy Hope (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996

"Transforming the Bottom Line" shows how to achieve organizational transformation by cutting the workload not the work force, developing a horizontal team-based organization, aligning performance measures with strategy, and more. "This book is, in its quiet but authoritative way, revolutionary".

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875847463
• ISBN-13: 978-0875847467
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,804,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars distills to one book many on subject, October 28, 1999

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This review is from: Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers (Hardcover)

Although the critic that complains of lack of originality is perhaps correct, this book is of great use to the small business owner. Through this book one may convey the writtings of Porter, Kaplan, Drucker, Copeland, Urich and many others to the layman employee that neither has the interest, time, nor perhaps even the capacity to to inculcate the writtings of the aforementioned authors. It delivers the spirit and meaning of value adding/non-value adding activity and its relavance for every business.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Heavy on Cases Light on Content, March 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers (Hardcover)

Apply the cost of this book to the purchase of Robert S. Kaplan's "The Balanced Scorecard" and, perhaps, "Cost & Effect." (I'm assuming that almost every reader already has a copy of Michael Hammer's and James Champy's "Reengineering the Corporation.") The author's tend to quote the leading authorities in activity based costing, balanced scorecards, and process reengineering liberally and follow each quote with an endless stream of supporting cases. Outside of these celebrity quotes and the mind-numbing quantity of cases, there is a surprising lack of content -- I'm almost tempted to write the authors to request a refund.

(Believe me, this two-star rating is extremely generous!!!)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good background material but not at all actionable, January 16, 2003

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This review is from: Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers (Hardcover)

I'm familiar with this book as it was an assigned textbook for a graduate level accounting course I taught. Where is succeeds is in pointing out the flaws of traditional accounting as a management tool and traditional cost reduction efforts as a response. Their material on finding and retaining profitable products and finding and retaining profitable customers are especially good. However, there isn't much in here on implementing the ideas and some ideas, especially managing with the real numbers, may be difficult to impossible to implement.

So, what's here is a good to great source of ideas in financial aspects of general management. There's just not much on how to take action on the ideas.