Value Quest: Driving Profit and Performance by Integrating Strategic Management Processes [Hardcover]

C. J. McNair (Author), Cam-I Cost Management Integration (Author), CAM-I Cost Management Integration Team (Author)

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With the introduction of the CAM-I Strategic Process Model, Value Quest provides practitioners a powerful framework to convert key information flows into optimal organizational strategies and executable decisions. Placed within the Extended Enterprise Concept, the CAM-I Strategic Management Process Model outlines the dynamic information flows between seven critical Strategic Management Processes (SMPs) and demonstrates the exponential "power" of leveraged information and systemic thinking.

Value Quest introduces the Decision Domain Hierarchy, a refined decision categorization, facilitating the visibility of a firm's key decisions and information requirements. Value Quest furnishes the reader with comprehensive explanations of seven Strategic Management Processes (SMPs), graphically displaying their information requirements and demonstrating the competitive force gained through CAM-I's Integration Model.

The reference guide to Advanced Value Management, Value Quest plots the course for dramatic improvements in delivering customer value and clearly explains the role of these seven SMPs that direct a firm's Value Quest:

Target Cost Management
Activity Based Cost Management
Integrated Performance Management
Asset Management
Process Management
Capacity Management
Extended Enterprise

Outfitted with a Diagnostic Positioning Tool (disk included), Value Quest answers the "Why's" and "How's" of Strategic Management Process Integration. With the compilation of fourteen years of leading-edge research, the CAM-I CMS Program again sets the industry standard for quantum improvement.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 469 pages
• Publisher: Consortium for Advanced (March 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189078303X
• ISBN-13: 978-1890783037
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,527,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They don't get any better, October 8, 2000

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John G Ortner, MBA, CMA (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Value Quest: Driving Profit and Performance by Integrating Strategic Management Processes (Hardcover)

I am a graduating MBA student in Australia. The "Value Quest" was prescribed text and I found this book just plain phenomenal. Its layout and its emphasis on key areas such as target costing, ABM and strategic management have been written with flair and astonishing depth.

Thank you for making confusing areas so very simple to understand. This book will serve me well for many years to come.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Integrating today's advanced cost mnanagement tools!, July 10, 2000

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Keith Hallin - Senior Manager Finance (The Boeing Company - Seattle, Wash.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Value Quest: Driving Profit and Performance by Integrating Strategic Management Processes (Hardcover)

Finally...... a book that makes sense of today's advanced cost management tools and processes. CJ McNair and the CAM-I Cost Management Integration Team have taken a huge stride forward in Advanced Cost Management theory and practice. This groundbreaking publication provides a conceptual model (The Strategic Management Process Model), and the supporting information (process flows, information tables, decision domains etc.) to make sense of the numerous tools and processes today's businesses are using to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace. The book provides a "Reader's Digest" version of seven of the most powerful Advanced Cost Management processes as developed over the past decade by the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International's (CAM-I) Cost Management System (CMS) program. The CAM-I/CMS program is widely recognized as the world's leading forum for the development and implementation of advanced cost management practices.

The strategic management processes are: Target Cost Management, Asset Management, Capacity Management, Process Management, The Extended Enterprise, Integrated Performance Management and Activity Based Cost Management.

The combined power of these strategic management processes comes through clearly in a two-fold approach to integration. The process view of integrated information flows and the decision domain view of required information, sets a powerful and practical view of how these processes can efficiently lead an company to improved productivity and profitability. This book also contains a top level business diagnostic and a practitioner's diagnostic to aid the reader in leveraging their cost improvement efforts. The diagnostics combine to help the reader identify the company's area of greatest need and also provides a roadmap of where in the book they can find assistance. The practitioner's diagnostic is included in an enclosed floppy disk which makes the diagnostic simple and easy to use.

Real business experience by such prominent companies as Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Honeywell International, Eastman Kodak, CNH Global and Arthur Andersen, provides the reader with a wealth of practical knowledge underpinned by the implementation experiences of these pioneering firms in the field of advance cost management.

This is truly a "MUST HAVE" publication for those seriously interested in profit and performance enhancement.

Keith Hallin - CAM-I/CMS Industry Chairman

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good writers, bad writing, October 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Value Quest: Driving Profit and Performance by Integrating Strategic Management Processes (Hardcover)

I cannot stay along by not give any comment about this book. I am a graduate student who is very fond of leading. But I really think that Value Quest publised by CAM-I is such a bad book on earth that I've ever read. Please review the following reasons. 1. Bad writing technique. Just talky. There is no emphasis area. 2. Full of technical stuffs and hard to understand sentences. 3. Absolutely bad presentation. Small picture. The detail in each picture cannot show the clear consequence.

4.Built-up model which is very simple, but write the explanation that make readers confuse.

As I saw from the writers' name, I think most of them have practical experiences in the business. I do not understand why they wrote this book to be a sleeping pill.