"Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value shows step by step how to use economic, strategic, operational, and valuation filters to analyze, eliminate, and ultimately select from among the different types of strategic alternatives. Each filter is applied in sequence through the use of specific models, all presented in clear and practical detail."

"Author Ray Trotta has created the Step-Wise Approach to Value (SWAV), a methodology that provides both strategic and financial tools for evaluating potential Strategic Alternatives - initiatives undertaken for the purpose of increasing shareholder value. The Step-Wise Approach tells you not only where your strategies succeed and fail (thus validating or invalidating them), but quantitatively how they've affected specific financial outcomes."--Jacket.