Delivering shareholder value is at the top of every board's agenda. However, whilst the creation and delivery of shareholder value has become a central business mantra, too often the focus is on a few key value-based metrics that in themselves deliver little real and lasting business benefit. Value-based management provides an appropriate external and internal communication information framework to help companies' strategic thinking on how value will be created and delivered. With the economy and markets evolving at an ever-faster rate, fresh challenges are emerging on how to recognise, measure and manage value. This briefing considers these challenges and puts forward a blueprint for how they should be addressed from a value creation perspective. It offers a practical toolkit for achieving value-based management, backed up with comprehensive case studies and diagrams to enforce key learning points.Contents include:*Value-based management: The full perspective *Value metrics as an essential element of VBM *Value creation from a strategic corporate perspective *Value recognition *Value alignment *Value creation from the internal delivery perspective *Value management *Value delivery in the new e-economies