June 25th, the first day of the 2014 PMA Conference, brought on a presentation delivered by James Grant Regan, expert in the field of Organizational Design, Development, Change and Performance, CEO at QaBe Developments, Canada.
Day 2 of the 2014 PMA Conference, held in Aarhus, Denmark, brought on a presentation dubbed “Performance Measurement System design: Developing a new system for Danish emergency departments”. It gave insights into the results from the homonym research, conducted by Phd Student Anders Møllekær and Professor Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, of the Aarhus University.
The first day of the 2014 PMA Conference, brought on a keynote presentation, delivered by Andy Neely, Professor and Director at the Cambridge Service Alliance, of the Cambridge University and PMA Chair.
Dubbed “Strategic Performance management: Past, Present and Potential” the presentation brought on a practical example, that of the British Airways’ implementation of their customer satisfaction program and suggested a new framework for performance management, in what Professor Neely calls a “turbulent” chapter in the development of mankind.
On the second day of the 2014 PMA Conference, Sanna Pekkola, Senior Researcher at Lahti School of Innovation, of the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, along with Researchers Minna Saunila, Tero Rantala and Professor Juhani Ukko, of the same school, held a presentation that looks into the role of performance measurement within industrial services.
Another key presentation of the PMA 2014 Conference’s first day, “From Belts to Baldrige”, was held by Charles Aubrey, Chairman at Asia Pacific Quality Organization, Managing Partner at Aubrey Partners and Former Vice President of Quality at Anderson Packaging. The presentation focused on exploring Anderson Packaging’s journey from implementing the Lean Six Sigma methodology to winning the Baldrige Awards.