Consultant Interview: Gavin Lawrie, Managing Director at 2GC

Written by Andrei Costea on February 4, 2019. Posted in Consultants, Interviews

In 2019, the Performance Magazine editorial team interviewed Gavin Lawrie, Managing Director at 2GC Active Management, Great Britain. His thoughts and views on Performance Management are presented in detail below.

Organizations have much greater success in performance management when they focus on implementing simple targeted solutions for specific applications.

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A Librarian’s Success Tool – The Balanced Scorecard

Written by Ramona Gligorea on October 10, 2018. Posted in Articles, Balanced Scorecard

How do you measure your library’s success? Is it circulation numbers? Or the number of searches on your electronic databases? In a recent customer survey, EBSCO Publishing found that over 60% of its customers had no formal way of tracking organizational success

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Operational performance: What, why and how?

Written by Andreea Vecerdea on July 9, 2018. Posted in Editorials

Have you ever wondered what operational performance is? The term is linked to the company’s performance at departmental level. Performance management can be analyzed at several levels in an organization: strategic, operational, team and individual.

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The ride for performance – Portland Streetcar

Written by Andreea Vecerdea on May 9, 2018. Posted in Around the world

Public transportation is one of the key challenges each city needs to address, in order to provide the proper infrastructure for its citizens.

The City of Portland, Oregon, is one of the urbs that strives for improved performance in this area. Portland Streetcar is a city venture into transit services, as the city works with 2 transportation partners: Portland Streetcar Incorporated (PSI), a private nonprofit corporation, and TriMet, the public transportation agency for the Portland metropolitan area.

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Migrating from organizational to personal performance. Useful or not?

Written by Diana Zărnescu on March 22, 2018. Posted in Editorials, Personal performance

Ever since Performance Management has made its entrance into the world stage, a stubborn resistance towards it continues to persist.

How far are we going to take this process? Where will it stop? How many more levels of our lives will it invade any further? These are just some of the questions that reluctant voices continue to raise.

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