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Measuring Business Performance
How to--and when to-measure business performance is a global management issue. This guide illustrates how different businesses use various types of measurements and goes into detail about the roles different types of metrics fulfill. Crucially, it presents a framework for guiding organizational thinking about quantifying and evaluating business performance.
Business Performance Measurement
This multidisciplinary, international book draws together the key themes in business performance measurement to provide an up-to-date summary of the leading ideas in the field. It will appeal to graduate students, managers and researchers interested in performance measurement, whatever their discipline.
Business Performance Measurement
Drawing together contributions from leading thinkers around the world, this 2007 book reviews developments in the theory and practice of performance measurement and management. Significantly updated and modified from the first edition, the book includes ten additional chapters which review performance measurement from the perspectives of accounting, marketing, operations, public services and supply-chain management. In addition to these functional analyses the book explores performance measurement frameworks and methodologies, practicalities and challenges, and enduring questions and issues. Edited by one of the world's leading experts on performance measurement and management, Business Performance Measurement will be of interest to graduate students, managers and researchers who wish to understand more about the theory and practice of performance measurement and management.
Strategy and Performance
The right manufacturing strategy is vital to maintaining profitability and running an efficient business. Manufacturing, however, is a complex business, and it is often difficult to know where to start when reviewing and developing long term strategic plans. This industry guide explains in clear, simple stages how to review your current processes and procedures, and how to build on this information to develop, present and implement new manufacturing strategies. Based on a uniquely structured approach developed over many years with major industry clients, including Rolls-Royce and Federal Mogul, its holistic approach can be applied to every area of operations from the entire organization down to individual business units or processes. CD included.
The Performance Prism
The Performance Prism takes a radically different look at performance measurement, and sets out explicitly to identify how managers can use measurement data to improve business performance.
Creating a Winning Business Formula
Building on the introduction provided in Competitive Manufacturing, this workbook offers a structured approach to manufacturing strategy to help managers focus on long-term business planning and take a pro-active stance to managing their own business.
Strategy and Performance
The right manufacturing strategy is vital to maintaining profitability and running an efficient business. Manufacturing, however, is a complex business, and it is often difficult to know where to start when reviewing and developing long term strategic plans. This industry guide explains in clear, simple stages how to review your current processes and procedures, and how to build on this information to develop, present and implement new manufacturing strategies. Based on a uniquely structured approach developed over many years with major industry clients, including Rolls-Royce and Federal Mogul, its holistic approach can be applied to every area of operations from the entire organization down to individual business units or processes. CD included.
Managing Performance in Turbulent Times
Straightforward playbook for executing world-class strategy for tangible results Designed with three key ideas: leverage the tools that are working, simplify the model, and make the content readable for managers, Managing Performance in Turbulent Times is a road map for the modern strategy manager. Through their simplified execution process the authors—performance management experts—show executives how to get results and execute even in the most difficult conditions. Addresses importance of adaptability to change within today's business environment Explores the environmental turbulence that constantly confounds virtually all organizational systems, with workable solutions Provides a streamlined execution process any organization can use to improve business results Managers need tools to do their jobs better. Filled with proven solutions, this book reveals how to get results through successful strategy execution, presenting a process that will help your organization execute strategy in a simplified, efficient manner.
Performance Measurement
This book provides a concise overview of the field of performance measurement. The book discusses market, financial, and nonfinancial measures of performance and stylized combinations of those measures. It describes general principles of measurement that can be applied to all organizational settings and all levels of analysis within those organizations (i.e., corporate, division, department, individual). The book provides examples and evidence about what can go wrong if the wrong measurement choices are made. It concludes with some normative advice that managers can use when making their performance measurement choices.
The Handbook of Organizational Economics
(E-book available via MyiLibrary) In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational economics seeks to understand the nature and workings of such organizations and their impact on economic performance. The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays the breadth of topics in organizational economics, including the roles of individuals and groups in organizations, organizational structures and processes, the boundaries of the firm, contracts between and within firms, and more.
