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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830989903321

Titolo

CAPEX excellence [[electronic resource] ] : optimizing fixed asset investments / / Hauke Hansen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons, c2009

ISBN

1-119-20721-5

0-470-68520-4

1-282-29169-6

9786612291692

0-470-74876-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HansenHauke

Disciplina

332.63

658.152

Soggetti

Capital investments

Investments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CAPEX Excellence; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; PART I WHY INVESTMENTS MATTER; 1 Introduction; PART II GETTING INVESTMENTS RIGHT; 2 Right Positioning: Managing an Asset's Exposure to Economic Risk; 3 Right Technology: How to Optimize Innovation Timing and Risks; 4 Right Timing: How Cyclicality Affects Return on Investments and What Companies Can Do About It; 5 Right Size: Balancing Economies and Diseconomies of Scale; 6 Right Location: Getting the Most from Government Incentives; 7 Right Design: How to Make Investments Lean and Flexible

8 Right Financing: Shaping the Optimal Finance PortfolioPART III; 9 Right Allocation: How to Allocate Money Within the Company; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Much of current management literature focuses on a limited set of 'classical' value levers, such as cost reduction, sales optimization or mergers & acquisitions, thus neglecting another core value lever: capital investments. That capital investments receive such limited attention is all the more surprising when one considers how vitally important they are to the economy as a whole as well as individual



businesses. There is significant value-creation potential in optimizing capital investments. Investments not only determine the asset structure of a venture. They also enable the introduction