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What is special and different about Tesla is best shown by comparing its strengths and weaknesses to those of the Big 3 and Toyota. The comprehensive managerial framework of 5-Dimensional Value shows that e.g. Ford, Chrysler and Toyota are particularly strong in three of the value dimensions, GM in only two; and Tesla in all five Structured insights into strategically managing value for customers, personnel, business partners and investors are used to forecast the future of the five firms and the US auto market. More importantly, 5-D Value links the internal success factors - five Managerial Do-Well's - and external success factors - five Markets Value Factors - which any business needs to consider when generating value in its operations and transacting value on the market. Thus the insights in the book can be applied to improve value management at all firms, from internet start-ups to mature brick-and-mortar companies. In this book it is shown: Tesla: Viability of online sales and treatment of personnel will be decisive - and not simply the cars, which will receive a boost if Google or Apple produce an electric car GM: Perhaps too solidly positioned today to move with the market tomorrow Toyota: Can be "boring", but the most explorative to find success Chrysler: More broad-based going forward thanks to Fiat Ford: Democracy at the democratizer, finally, to realize the vision of "green" lifestyle cars

In Amazon: Managing Extraordinary Success in 5-D Value, Benjamin Wall offers structured insights into strategically managing value in the key relationships to customers, personnel, business partners, and investors in order to improve value management at any company. The extraordinary success of Amazon is due to market-leading strength in three “dimensions” of value: owning the mightiest supply chain to deliver fastest and cheapest the broadest range of products, enhancing what customers and business partners are doing when using the website / online ecosystem, and knowing how to implement the optimal terms and conditions in the after-sales customer experience. Wall takes a look at the unique managerial skill of Amazon and how each of these organizational areas operates externally and internally according to a separate business logic based on a dimension of value. In an original examination, Wall systematically evaluates Amazon by categorizing and connecting its external and internal success factors to dimensions of value. Each “score” on an external success factor is linked to an internal success factor in managing processes, organizational culture, and the business model, so that managers and leaders can enhance their own internal success factors and move towards the same successful external factors. Amazon looks to the future where the near-term promise of the company is evaluated to be in the development from online to omnichannel retail, including the sale of services, by reviving out of Amazon’s past the fourth dimension of value: feeling how to integrate value. The long-term potential of Amazon is set in the context of a sustainable future for retail, based on trends arising today in meaning across multiple communities, which is the emerging fifth dimension of value. Amazon is projected to operate in this value dimension again as a disruptor, and with Wall’s help, managers and leaders can reach for the same kind of success.