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 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.
On the third day of the PMA 2014 Conference, the Senior Lecturers Sai Nudurupati and David Petty, along with the PhD student Fateha Shaheen, from the Manchester Metropolitan University, offered the presentation “Influence of Culture and Management Systems on PMS”.
The presentation “Increasing Flexibility and Performance Orientation with Relative-Performance-Contracting” was offered, in the third day of the PMA 2014 Conference, by Franz Wirnsperger, Director at Hilti Lab for Integrated Performance Management, University of St. Gallen.