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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy. However, profits, ROIC, and revenue growth are backward looking.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

The plan involved reforming Nikon’s struggling semiconductor lithography and imaging productsunits, both potentially high-value-added businesses, by cutting fixed costs, reducing SKUs and focusing on high-value-added product lines. It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.