Drawing on the corporate experience of over 50 organizations, recent research findings and the advice and guidance of leading experts, this report identifies the six critical areas where leaders in the field demonstrate winning performance management approaches and attributes:

How to ensure that there is company-wide understanding of strategic intent, objectives and actions and that all resources are aligned with strategy
Find out how the balanced scorecard, performance measurement systems, executive commitment, communication, incentives and compensation all have key roles in achieving alignment.

Key lessons in building, managing and measuring performance excellence
This report examines the strategic performance management systems and frameworks which can be used to create a high performance environment and manage and measure its outputs. Learn how some leading organizations are successfully deploying the Baldrige and EFQM models, participation models and deliberate culture initiatives and interventions.

How to develop effective strategic performance leadership skills
Leadership is a crucial enabling and aligning element of strategic performance management. This report reveals how to engage the top team in partnership working, how to align effort through a high-level management process and how to cascade leadership practices deep into the organization.

How to align people processes to business performance
Discover winning approaches for rethinking work processes, jobs, performance itself and how performance is appraised. Case examples reveal how Elais SA, Tesco, Continental Airlines, Ritz-Carlton Hotel and other leading companies are using new value propositions, compensation, employee value management, work-life strategies and individual entitlement, and how they are learning to boost performance and build motivation and employee loyalty.

A blueprint for managing and measuring process excellence
Find out how some organizations are using world-class process models to build process excellence, such as Six Sigma capability. Case reports reveal key lessons in building and managing process capability and executing process improvements and breakthroughs. Plus expert guidance and advice on how to measure and evaluate process effectiveness.

How to use technology to enable and drive strategic performance
Effective deployment of technology to aid the flow of information will enable executives in your organization to be more productive, making strategic and resource decisions, while focusing on the critical issues of how to outsmart the competition. Find out how in this report. Managing Strategic Performance explains how to use electronic versions of strategic management frameworks, enterprise resource planning systems, data warehousing tools, Internet technologies and other tools to source, present, use and exploit information for organizational effectiveness.

Benchmark your own progress against the leaders in the field through in-depth case studies