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Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy : Text and Cases (00 Edition)

by Robert Simons

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Provides and integrated, action-oriented roadmap to all the control system tools and techniques that are needed to manage a business effectively. New accounting techniques including profit wheel analysis, and Strategic profitability analysis. Provides the most comprehensive presentation of the Balances scorecard approach by one of its originators. A carefully integrated structure. For managers and MBAs who are interested in learning more about Management Control Systems.
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Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY
 1. Organizational Tensions to be Managed.

 2. Basics for Successful Strategy.

 3. Organizing for Performance.

 4. Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control.

II. CREATING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS

 5. Building a Profit Plan.

 6. Evaluating Strategic Profit Performance.

 7. Designing Asset Allocation Systems.

 8. Linking Performance to Markets.

 9. Building a Balanced Scorecard.

III. ACHIEVING PROFIT GOALS AND STRATEGIES

10. Using Diagnostic and Interactive Control Systems.

11. Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives.

12. Identifying Strategic Risk.

13. Managing Strategic Risk.

14. Levers of Control for Implementing Strategy.

IV. CASE STUDIES

ATH Technologies, Inc.: Making the Numbers.

J Boats.

MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s.

Asea Brown Boveri.

ABB: Accountability Times Two (A).

ABB: Accountability Times Two (B).

ABB: The ABACUS System.

Roy Rogers Restaurants.

Codman and Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System.

Hanson Ski Products.

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions.

Compagnie du Froid, S.A.

Texas Eastman Company.

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (A).

Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem.

Birch Paper Company.

Polysar Limited.

Purity Steel Corporation, 1995.

Western Chemical Corporation: Divisional Performance Measurement.

Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard.

Mobil USM&R (A): Linking the Balanced Scorecard.

Citibank: Performance Evaluation.

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A).

Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems.

Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (A).

Duckworth Industries, Inc.—Incentive Compensation Programs.

Kidder, Peabody, and Co.: Creating Elusive Profits.

Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A).

Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision.

Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust.

Automation Consulting Services.

Becton Dickinson—Designing the New SOF Planning Process.

Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780132340069
Author:
Simons, Robert
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Location:
Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Subject:
Industrial Management
Subject:
Accounting - General
Subject:
Strategic planning
Subject:
Cost control
Subject:
Managerial accounting
Subject:
Industrial efficiency
Subject:
Controllership
Subject:
Accounting - Managerial
Copyright:
2000
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Publication Date:
June 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Pages:
792
Dimensions:
9.23x7.77x1.32 in. 3.09 lbs.
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