Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution

<b>Praise for <i>Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution</i></b><p>"Performance management systems and processes will be a major focus of firms over the next decade, as they attempt to harness vast volumes of transaction and customer data. <i>Drive Business Performance</i> provides a clear road map for navigating this important territory. If your want to understand, explain, and predict your company′s performance, buy and read this book."<br>—Thomas H. Davenport, President′s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College<p>"<i>Drive Business Performance</i> is a pragmatic guide for world–class decision making. It provides important new thinking on a management approach that empowers people to amplify their impact on organizational results. This is a groundbreaking book that executives and managers alike should read."<br>—Randy Benz, Chief Information Officer, Energizer Holdings, Inc.<p>"Providing everyone in the organization with a clear understanding of how day–to–day decision making and tactical execution relate to organizational success is critical to running a high performing business. <i>Drive Business Performance</i> provides specific and easy–to–follow guidance to deliver results. A must–read for any organization seeking to win."<br>—Christopher Liddell, Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Corporation<p><b>A practical road map to managing your company′s journey from strategic ideas to world–class performance</b><p>Today′s executives are expected to drive results faster than ever before. In <i>Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution,</i> performance management thought leaders Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts share their considerable knowledge and experience to provide explicit steps that will guide you in improvi ng performance management within your own organization.<p>This groundbreaking book shows you:<ul type="disc"><li>How performance management can deliver competitive advantage<li>How to diagnose your organization′s performance management capabilities<li>What specific skills and assets your organization needs to manage performance more effectively</ul><p>Supplemental material is available from the authors at www.cultureofperfomance.com

Spis treści:
Foreword.<p>Preface.<p>Acknowledgements.<p>Chapter 1: The Six Stages of Performance Management.<p>Chapter 2: Managing Performance.<p>Chapter 3: Monitor.<p>Chapter 4: Analyze.<p>Chapter 5: Plan.<p>Chapter 6: Pull It All Together: What’s Your Organization’s Stage?<p>Index.

Nota biograficzna:
<b>Bruno Aziza</b> has led marketing, sales, and operations teams at various technology firms, including Apple Inc., Business Objects, and Decathlon. Bruno has worked and lived in France, the U.K., Germany and the U.S., and holds a master′s degree in business and economics from three European institutions. He currently works on Microsoft′s Global Business Intelligence strategy.<p><b>Joey Fitts</b> has consulted over twenty–five of the Fortune 500, guest–lectured at Harvard Executive Education programs, raised over $16 million in venture capital, and served on the Board of Advisors for InterVivos and the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). He currently works on Microsoft′s Global Business Intelligence Alliance strategy.

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<b>Praise for <i>Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution</i></b><p>"Performance management systems and processes will be a major focus of firms over the next decade, as they attempt to harness vast volumes of transaction and customer data. <i>Drive Business Performance</i> provides a clear road map for navigating this important territory. If your want to understand, explain, and predict your company′s performance, buy and read this book."<br>—Thomas H. Davenport, President′s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College<p>"<i>Drive Business Performance</i> is a pragmatic guide for world–class decision making. It provides important new thinking on a management approach that empowers people to amplify their impact on organizational results. This is a groundbreaking book that executives and managers alike should read."<br>—Randy Benz, Chief Information Officer, Energizer Holdings, Inc.<p>"Providing everyone in the organization with a clear understanding of how day–to–day decision making and tactical execution relate to organizational success is critical to running a high performing business. <i>Drive Business Performance</i> provides specific and easy–to–follow guidance to deliver results. A must–read for any organization seeking to win."<br>—Christopher Liddell, Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Corporation<p><b>A practical road map to managing your company′s journey from strategic ideas to world–class performance</b><p>Today′s executives are expected to drive results faster than ever before. In <i>Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution,</i> performance management thought leaders Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts share their considerable knowledge and experience to provide explicit steps that will guide you in improving performance management within your own organization.<p>This groundbreaking book shows you:<ul type="disc"><li>How performance management can deliver competitive advantage<li>How to diagnose your organization′s performance management capabilities<li>What specif ic skills and assets your organization needs to manage performance more effectively</ul><p>Supplemental material is available from the authors at www.cultureofperfomance.com