Companies are constantly making assessments about how to prioritize activites in the organization towards increasing shareholder value. Typically, the concerns are short term (i.e. quarterly and annually) although most CEOs would like to understand how short term focuses result in longer term more strategic deficits.
Our question is how might we see the relationships between a typical manufacturing company's activities, its marketplace and financial metrics in order to better understand the relative dynamic impact of different activities on shareholder value?