What Makes a High Performance Organization
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
How can today’s managers concentrate on what really matters to improve the performance of their organization, to reach outstanding goals? The answer is in ‘What Makes an HPO’ The five critical factors of the HPO Framework – Management Quality, Openness & Action-Orientation, Long-Term Orientation, Continuous Improvement & Renewal and Employee Quality – will help you […]
High Performance Managerial Leadership
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Learn how managers have transformed their teams and companies into envied high-performance organizations in this guide to nurturing successful managers at your organization, informed by the author’s ten-year study of applications of his High Performing Organization (HPO) Framework. How can an organization learn to perform at a high level? The key is management. Based on […]
Project management control within a multicultural setting
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
There is a growing debate and research stream on the influence of national culture on the type and nature of management control systems (MCSs) used by organizations in the country. A specific case is the management control of projects executed in a multicultural international environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe the findings […]
The role of behavioral factors in the successful implementation and use of Performance Management Systems
Thursday, 17 August 2017
This Ph.D. thesis describes research into the question which behavioral factors play a role in the successful implementation and use of performance management systems, such as the balanced scorecard. It turns out 18 specific factors are of importance and that specific management styles are also decisive for regular use of these systems. The research is […]
BBRT Benchmarking project, report on an exploratory survey
Thursday, 17 August 2017
CAM-I report, 2001/12 The purpose of this exploratory survey was to test whether companies that have moved towards the BBRT model gain competitive advantage by doing so. The data for the survey was collected in 2000 at ‘beyond budgeting’ courses and conferences held in Australia, Denmark, United Kingdom and United States of America. Analysis of […]
Managing in the new economy
Thursday, 17 August 2017
BEST PRACTICE OF BALANCED SCORECARD, the First Book for Implementation (ISBN 4-492-55435-1). The book focuses on organizational effectiveness in the light of the dramatic technological forces that have been unleashed by the Internet and that are changing the very landscape of how organizations conduct global business. The book deals with best-practice business processes, collaborative technologies, […]
Power of Performance Management
Thursday, 17 August 2017
There is a growing conviction among senior corporate financial managers that traditional business planning and performance management methods are flawed and insufficient for keeping competitive in today’s technology driven information age. There is increasing pressure from shareholders for corporations to create as much value as possible. More than ever, today’s companies must top the value […]
The characteristics of a High Performance Organisation
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Ever since the publication of Peters and Waterman’s landmark study In Search Of Excellence (1982) and the bestsellers Built To Last and Good to Great of Collins (1997, 2001), there has been a strong interest in identifying the characteristics of high performance organizations (HPOs). This article describes the results of a meta analysis of 91 […]
The characteristics of a High Performance Organisation
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Under the pressure of ever increasing demands of the external environment and stakeholders, organizations are more and more looking for the elements that make up high performance. An analysis of 91 studies into high performance organizations yielded characteristics with regard to the organizational design, structure, processes, technology, leadership, people, and culture, and the external environment […]
The foundations of Nirvana, the characteristics of a High Performance Organisation
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The original Nirvana was based on a literature study of around 20 of the most well-known studies of HPOs. For this white paper, the study was extended to ninety-one HPO-studies which have been performed in the last fifteen years. The research scope was enlarged to not only to the performance management cycle, but to all […]