27th June 2014 was the 3rd and last day of the 8th Edition of the Performance Management Association Conference, hosted by the Aarhus University, in Denmark.
The conference day started with a keynote presentation, by Professor Andy Neely, of the Cambridge University and Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance. Dubbed Next generation Performance Management & Measurement: the Big data revolution, the presentation showed how the current perspective in performance management has become too narrow and brought attention to the need for innovation.
The presentation “Future of Performance Management and Measurement. An empirical evidence” was offered, on the third day of the PMA 2014 Conference, by Sai Nudurupati, Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Patrizia Garengo, Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua, Umit Bititci, Professor & Director of the School of Management and Languages from the Herriot Watt University and Alberto Sardi, also from the Department of Industrial Engineering, of the University of Padua.
The last presentation of the PMA 2014 Conference, titled “Performance management practices and elderly care” was delivered, at the end of the third day, by Jannis Angelis, from the Royal Institute of Technology, along with Henrik Jordahl, from the Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
The third day of the PMA 2014 Conference brought the presentation “Using guest feedback for managing the performance in a hotel”, offered by Joachim Sandt, Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the THM Business School, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany and Christoph Hoffmann, Vice Principal of the Edge Hotel School, University of Essex, UK.
The presentation “The Role of Performance Management in High Performance Organisation” was delivered, in the third day of the PMA 2014 Conference, by André A. de Waal, from Maastricht School of Management and Center for Organizational Performance and Béatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, from Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Management Research, Netherlands.
