The Open-book Management Experience

This is a practical guide to the open-book philosophy model of business management - a model that bridges the gap between concern for people and rigorous performance measurement and improvement. The book explains how to identify a company's critical numbers, how to bring its often complex financials down to Earth, and how to set up a system that gets everyone in the business working to improve performance. It describes how companies, both large and small, have actually implemented open-book management: how they started, how they overcame organizational obstacles and how they taught employees to understand the business. Detailed chapters examine how to employ the innovative managerial tools and techniques for open-book management, such as: electronic scoreboards; bottom-up budgeting; employee-designed bonus plans; and collaborative "games" designed to attack business problems. John Case is the author of "Open-Book Management: The Coming Business Revolution" and editor of the newsletter, "Open-Book Management Bulletin".

John Case, an internationally renowned expert on open-book management, is the author of Open-Book Management: The Coming Business Revolution and editor of the newsletter Open-Book Management Bulletin. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Harvard Business Review and Inc., where he is editor at large.