Activity Based Management

Improving Processes and Profitability

Brian Plowman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-79295-0 (ISBN)

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This title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers’ understanding of their business. Identifying customer revenue is easy but identifying what they cost - so we can understand whether or not they are profitable - is difficult. In a world in which competition, regulation and the increasing use of the Internet put ever greater pressure on margins it is vitally important to understand both product- and customer-profitability. Activity Based Management (ABM) enables you to do this. This book explains the power of using ABM to increase the profitability of your business. It provides step-by-step guidance on basic principles, comparisons between traditional methods, definitions of processes, activities and cost-drivers as well as details of data collection techniques and implementation steps. Through the book’s numerous detailed examples a logical picture builds up of how to obtain the benefits that ABM can deliver. On its own ABM will change management decision-making: by showing how ABM also supports other profit improvement initiatives such as Business Process Reengineering, Shareholder Value Added and Customer Relationship Management, managers will learn how they can use the best possible toolkit to put their business firmly on the road to leaps in profitability.

Brian Plowman is a Director and founding partner of Develin & Partners, a UK-based management consultancy. Previous industrial experience includes appointments in the UK and mainland Europe, as well as being Managing Director of a group of manufacturing companies. Brian has over 20 years' consulting experience, covering many aspects of corporate transformation. He is co-editor and contributor to Quality Management in the CIMA Professional Handbook series and author of High Value, Low Cost (Financial Times/Pitman). As well as being a regular speaker at conferences he is also a course presenter for CIMA, the ACCA and ICAS.

Contents: Introduction. Part I: The Context: Historical perspective; What is ABM?; Frameworks for measurement and improvement; The ABM framework. Part II: ABM in Practice: The ABM flow of costs; The basic principles of building models; Undertaking an ABM project; Integrating improvement approaches. Part III: Case Studies: How ABM made a difference - lessons from case studies. Part IV Conclusions: Pulling it all together. Appendix - Glossary of terms; Index.Contents:

Erscheinungsdatum	15.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-415-79295-9 / 0415792959
ISBN-13	978-0-415-79295-0 / 9780415792950
Zustand	Neuware