Most companies sell at subpar to par value, meaning their ultimate value is somewhere between three to five times their earnings. But some attain a superpremium value of nine to ten times net earnings--or even more. Why are some companies worth a superpremium price while others aren't? In Building Business Value: How to Command a Premium Price for Your Midsized Company, Martin O'Neill shows executives how to focus a leadership team on the challenge of building value over the long haul, so when it comes time to exit, their company can ask for--and get--that superpremium price.

What does IT contribute to the business?
Why should we care about IT governance?
How can we best measure IT performance?
How do we mitigate the risks associated with change?

Using Agile methods, you can bring far greater innovation, value, and quality to any data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), or analytics project. However, conventional Agile methods must be carefully adapted to address the unique characteristics of DW/BI projects. In Agile Analytics, Agile pioneer Ken Collier shows how to do just that.

An overwhelming majority of pro-fessional firms price their services by the flawed hourly billing method. This method is outdated, suboptimal, and driving the best and brightest out of the professions. While lawyers, accountants, and consultants serve noble callings, the predominant method of pricing for their services is not worthy of them. There is a better way.
Implementing Value Pricing demonstrates a superior model to price for professional services: selling intellectual capital with pricing based on the results and value it creates, not the cost or time it took to formulate.

The ultimate guide to maximizing shareholder value through ERM

The first book to introduce an emerging approach synthesizing ERM and value-based management, Corporate Value of Enterprise Risk Management clarifies ERM as a strategic business management approach that enhances strategic planning and other decision-making processes.
A hot topic in the wake of a series of corporate scandals as well as the financial crisis
Looks at ERM as a way to deliver on the promise of balancing risk and return
A practical guide for corporate Chief Risk Officers (CROs) and other business professionals seeking to successfully implement ERM

Using Agile methods, you can bring far greater innovation, value, and quality to any data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), or analytics project. However, conventional Agile methods must be carefully adapted to address the unique characteristics of DW/BI projects. In Agile Analytics, Agile pioneer Ken Collier shows how to do just that.

Author, speaker, and valuation expert Warren Miller explains how to guide client companies through self-assessment using the five-dimension SPARC framework: Strategy, People, Architecture, Routines, Culture. This framework helps analysts uncover the cause-and-effect relationships that explain business performance. In conjunction with Excel-based software accessible at wiley.com, the resulting value map lights the way for valu-ation professionals and consultants to help client companies increase business value.

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.
This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches and conventional thinking. Updates to all the material from the first edition are included and new examples have been added throughout.
Highly-acclaimed first edition, 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', was winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.
Innovative, customer-led view of strategy that includes new examples and updated material.
Controversially plays down the role of the international and global given the revolution in communications including the internet.