In 2016, the Performance Magazine editorial team interviewed Zainab Mohammed, CEO Property Management & Marketing at wasl, in the United Arab Emirates, for the “Performance Management in 2015: GCC Special Edition” report. Her thoughts and views on Performance Management are detailed below.
Many practitioners are limited by their knowledge regarding their own trade and its success factors.
Energy efficiency will be a growing challenge, as stated in the 2015 UAE State of Energy Report, since population and economic growth and high consumption rates make servicing citizens a strenuous task.
Governments from all over the globe are pressured to provide higher added value, better public services, improved transparency and accountability towards their citizens.
The Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) is an independent federal authority in the UAE that was established in 2004. EIDA’s main purpose as a governmental agency is focused on “the establishment of a modern population register in order to facilitate the obtainment of government services as well as to provide the required information for supporting decision making, strategic planning and the allocation of sources in all vital sectors in the UAE”, as documented on their website.
The Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group (ADSG) was established in 2008 and is a membership-based organization, dedicated to encouraging “co-responsibility in Abu Dhabi to ensure that government entities, business and not for profit organizations are all partners in working towards achieving the goal of economic, environmental and social sustainability,” as they explain in the “From reporting to action” strategy report.