Power of Performance Management: How Leading Companies Create Sustained Value

By André de Waal

A groundbreaking new approach to creating and delivering world-class shareholder value Creating the right performance management framework is the key to delivering sustained, world-class value. Under increasing pressure from shareholders to create sustained wealth, CFOs, CEOs, and controllers are desperate for new business planning methods that will help them meet constantly growing expectations. This book provides the framework for developing a strategic plan to develop world-class performance management capabilities. Numerous case studies and best practice examples help identify the key issues companies face in their drive to deliver and create value as well as the new role management must play in order to maximize performance management capabilities. The book also explores the various information technologies that support performance management.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471383473
• ISBN13: 9780471383475
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The daily practice of Performance Management

This book provides an excellent framework needed to develop a world class performance management process. It is not a theoretical book but it is based on the experiences of prominent companies like Sara Lee, Philip Electronics, Emerson Electric, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, NEC, and Xerox who have all used the techniques described in this book. Every chapter starts with a description of a particular challenge which companies have to overcome in their performance management process. Then, several ideas are given to deal with the challenge. Finally, the ideas are illustrated by real-life cases. This set-up makes it very easy for the readers to understand and then apply these ideas at their own companies. This book gives an outstanding overview of the current state-of-the-art in this field!