Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution - Hardcover

Aziza, Bruno; Fitts, Joey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470259558 ISBN 13: 9780470259559

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

This groundbreaking guide provides a deep understanding of how to achieve enterprise performance management objectives, backed up by first-hand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational DNA. Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations that create and manage a "Culture of Performance."

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Praise for Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution

"Performance management systems and processes will be a major focus of firms over the next decade, as they attempt to harness vast volumes of transaction and customer data. Drive Business Performance provides a clear road map for navigating this important territory. If your want to understand, explain, and predict your company's performance, buy and read this book."
―Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College

"Drive Business Performance is a pragmatic guide for world-class decision making. It provides important new thinking on a management approach that empowers people to amplify their impact on organizational results. This is a groundbreaking book that executives and managers alike should read."
―Randy Benz, Chief Information Officer, Energizer Holdings, Inc.

"Providing everyone in the organization with a clear understanding of how day-to-day decision making and tactical execution relate to organizational success is critical to running a high performing business. Drive Business Performance provides specific and easy-to-follow guidance to deliver results. A must-read for any organization seeking to win."
―Christopher Liddell, Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Corporation

A practical road map to managing your company's journey from strategic ideas to world-class performance

Today's executives are expected to drive results faster than ever before. In Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution, performance management thought leaders Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts share their considerable knowledge and experience to provide explicit steps that will guide you in improving performance management within your own organization.

This groundbreaking book shows you:

• How performance management can deliver competitive advantage
• How to diagnose your organization's performance management capabilities
• What specific skills and assets your organization needs to manage performance more effectively

Supplemental material is available from the authors at www.cultureofperfomance.com

From the Inside Flap:

Drive Business Performance

How can your organization increase its agility, alignment, and accountability to improve performance? Developing performance management capabilities means changing the way people are empowered to make better decisions. It requires a transition from a restrictive, command-and-control approach to management style that includes more participants in the performance management process. Drive Business Performance shows you how.

Starting with a forward by Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, creators of the revolutionary Balanced Scorecard approach, Drive Business Performance reveals how to effectively align performance with technology, creating a best-in-class information management system and amplifying individual employee impact.

This groundbreaking guide provides a deep understanding of how to achieve enterprise performance management objectives, backed up by firsthand accounts from Fortune 500 companies that are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision making into their organizational DNA. Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations that create and manage a "Culture of Performance."

Part of Wiley's Microsoft Executive Leadership Series, Drive Business Performance fills a gap in the literature on managing performance. This innovative, jargon-free book demystifies performance management, with detailed guidance for organizations to replicate top performers' results, including the recommended skills and assets needed to successfully compete in today's business environment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470259558
• ISBN 13: 9780470259559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320