Business-valuation

I think Logan has done a decent job of outlining some IT adoption problems in corporations. Like some of the other reviewers have said, however, the book is simply not useful for large corporatations. It seems like Logan has always been a consultant. Never appreciating the politics and bureaucracy the IT department has to go through to implement new IT initiatives.

These guys like Logan come in with pie in the sky dreams. Fact of the matter is, we IT executives need to focus on getting maximum benefit out of minimum capital. The book simply expects too much. Dreaming.

Maybe business execs could read the book and get more out of it. But Logan is a soporiphic writer. I stopped used sleeping pills. All I needed to do was read a chapter of this book and I'd sleep well:)

Logan's problem is that he is writing a book for IT execs that he should be writing for business executives. He should have written the book with more succinct sentences. He should have cut the book in half at least.

Business guys don't like technology for the most part. To get them to pick up a boring and long book to teach them how to use IT is impossible.

That is the main problem with Logan's stuff -- ok content, terribly written, geared for the wrong audience, and pie in the sky dreams.

Overall, I would not recommend reading this book, unless you are having problems sleeping.

Maybe it would have been pertinent if I had actually gotten around to reading it when it was sent to me. The fact of the matter is that the book is now outdated.

First chapter, good. Then the book got worse and worse. Clearly, the author has never worked in a large organization. He has no idea the difficulties facing CIOs in large and small companies. So while Login's ideas are ok, they have no benefit in the real corporate world in America.

But the book is not academic enough (i.e. good enough) for universities to use this.

I would NOT recommend this book. It is another one of those non-acadmemic, non-thought provoking books that just is not grounded in reality.

That is not right. Amazon should do something about this to ensure the integrity of these reviews.

Anyhoo, this book is decent. I'd recommend this book to mid-level managers in big firms who went to college after the tech revolution. Might have good insights for you.

But for a small firm these ideas dont work. And if you already are even broderline tech savvy, this book is not good. Basically just rehashes what everyone already knows.

If this book were written in the mid90s i would have recommended it to more people. But frankly, it is outdated now. This book came out a decade late.

I give it two stars. not horrible but not worht the money.

My rating has got these origins: Empirical research on Compensation,EVA and CFROI-Fade: A+. Discussion of EVA/CFROI: D-. Terminology: D value for 'Hands-on-valuation': F- Structure: F- Style: F-.

This book does contain interesting empirical research on EVA etc, but it does not offer 'A practical Guide to Implementation' because it does not contain a STAGE-Approach. Its terminology differs from any other book I've read, you must often guess, which formulas the authors used, because they did not have the courtesy to express their formulas. Some formulas are wrong nad their discussion of the 'metrics war' betweenn EVA and CFROI lags 5 years behind reality. They attack old methods of CFROI,which Boston Consulting and Holt Value published 5 (!) years ago. They fail to know, that BCG have refined CVA/CFROI and that BAYER. Lufthansa,and VEBA have implemented these refined CFROI-techniques,which are way better, than the old methods, which the book attacks.

Moreover, this book is terrible to read due to a lack of structure, the absence of clear definitions, the lack of formulas, a wordy style,which exhausts your nerves, and many value judgements....