For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
An important editorial rule followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Eve Blackall, Group Director at Smart Accounting, Australia was one of the consultants that The KPI Institute interviewed.
As data based decision making is at the core of better management practices today, tools such as scorecards and dashboards can assist with providing critical business data for decision making. Dashboards are operational tools used to illustrate the company’s performance in its most relevant areas. In their recent study on changing practices of financial departments and management audit in businesses (2011), Bearing Point and the Association Nationale des Directeurs Financiers et de Contrôle de Gestion (DFCG) identified several trends in using dashboards across organizations.
The South African Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency (DPME) was instituted in 2010, with the purpose of ensuring continuous improvement in service delivery, through performance monitoring and evaluation. Their key focus areas are built around performance monitoring and evaluation of governmental priorities, assessing the quality of management practices in governmental departments and indicators development.
Given the recent Winter Olympics sports competition, a discussion about performance management and sport federations is proposed in the following article. This topic has been addressed by a series of studies, conducted by Winand and Zintz, along with colleagues Bayle, Robinson and Scheerder. In the first study, conducted in 2010, they raised the issue of the necessity of implementing measurement strategies and protocols for enhancing the organizational success of the Chairs of 13 Olympic sports governing bodies.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image on the state of Performance Management as a discipline.
One of the main editorial rules followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO, at Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, USAwas one of the consultants that The KPI Institute interviewed.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
