Performance Management – a story told through key survey figures and statistics

Written by Aurel Brudan on May 21, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 20/2010

Performance Management is one of the most dynamic business disciplines today. Its evolution accelerated over the last 20 years and due to the large number of concepts it employs and unstructured body of knowledge, having a comprehensive big picture view of the topic is rather challenging. One way of achieving this is by reading a lot and doing a critical review to the various ideas proposed. Another option is by monitoring the pulse of the discipline as reflected in studies and survey reports covering performance management topics.

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What is wrong with Performance Measurement?

Written by Aurel Brudan on May 14, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 19/2010

A simple answer is over-reliance on measurement and its merits.

Since ancient times, humans had a fascination with measurement. In discovering the natural universe, measurement has its merits and one might say it is indispensable.

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Performance Management history file – Global Performance Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on May 4, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

The specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been addressed by various initiatives in diverse areas of organizational management and development, including the context of performance management and measurement.

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Assessing organizational performance management capability – The Performance Management Maturity Model

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on April 20, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

A model is a simplified representation of the world. According with The American Heritage Dictionary (2001), a model can have multiple significations, one of the most used  being “a schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon, that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics”.

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BARC research study: Performance Management – Current Challenges and Future Directions

Written by Denisa Călin on April 19, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Organisational performance

Between March and May 2009, Business Application Research Center (BARC) an unbiased market analyst based in Germany, conducted a study regarding the maturity of organisational Performance Management processes. The study had 553 respondents from around the world, across a wide range industries, countries and organizations.

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