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White Papers
How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Balancing Measures: Best Practices in Performance Management, Part 2 of 4
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
There is no generic set of balanced measures that can be applied as best practice to all functions of the public sector. Certain conditions, however, need to exist within an organization for a...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Webcasts
Human Capital Planning for Success
June 22, 2004, 12:00am PDT
The Industrial Age has yielded to the Information Age. Employees are no longer "human resources" to be expended but tangible human capital assets to be developed and protected. Workforce planning...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Minimize IT Risk With a Business Focused Capacity Plan
March 21, 2006, 12:00am PST
For many years Capacity Planning has been looked upon as a mainstream technical discipline. Whilst planning the future capacity of these entities is an absolute necessity for the infrastructure...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Corporate Performance Management, Strategy Map and the Balanced Scorecard - Putting It All Together
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite a sea of collected data, organizations struggle with making sense of it to arrive at these answers. This is not surprising, since, organizations are typically data rich and information...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Barriers to Performance Improvement
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizations begin performance management initiatives at any point - for example, one may begin with defining the corporate strategy and determining KPIs to support it. Others will initiate a...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Putting an execution environment in place is hard, but losing it is easy. When a company executes well, its people are not victims of mistakes. And when a company executes well, its people are not...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Aligning for Success: Enterprise Performance Management
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
When birds migrate, they do so with a common goal - to get to a warmer climate for the winter months, a cooler one for the summer. For many of these birds, getting there successfully is a matter...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
In the Beginning...
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Management knowledge helps to improve an organization's performance. But how is management knowledge to be taught to the rank and file workers? Unfortunately, the field is too extensive for people...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
The Role of Performance Measures in Predictive Accounting, Part 1
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Predictive accounting seeks to understand the future. It is neither a crystal ball nor the wicked witch's mirror. It is based on the observation that all work comes from repeatable processes. A...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Strategy Execution
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Are nonfinancial performance measures the key to better strategy execution? They are at the heart of describing strategy and of developing a unique set of performance measures that communicate...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Cranfield School of Management Partners With BetterManagement.com to Bring Valuable Research and Insights to Industry
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
BetterManagement.com is the premier performance management Internet resource. The Cranfield School of Management has joined BetterManagement.com's elite group of strategic content partners....
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues the Harvard Business School professor. Instead, business leaders should look for...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Managing IT According to a Hierarchy of Needs
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the author asserts that IT is a commodity and as such offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. As a result, the author suggests that IT...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
The Principles of Integrated Product Development
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Better customer relationships, frequent communication, and feedback systems lead to better understanding the customer's/user's needs. Customer involvement increases the probability of the product...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy Maps for Government Organizations
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
As today's government organizations continue to look for effective tools to improve performance management, leading organizations are leveraging the power of strategy maps to help execute...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Strategy Execution in Government Organizations
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part II
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If economic value creation is the translation, through focused strategy, of intangible human into tangible commercial assets, then one can say that the learning-and-growth dimension of strategy...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Use Strategic Communications to Execute Strategy: Why Strategic Communications Is so Critical
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Communications is critical to "Making Strategy Everyone's Job" in a Strategy-Focused Organization (SFO). Well performing organizations are far more likely than poor performing ones to have senior...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 3, so What Is ABM?
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Initially Activity Based Costing (ABC) was presented as a means of establishing product costs more accurately. The emergence of Activity Based Management (ABM) provided a means of enhancing...
Provided by Better Management.com
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White Papers
Performance Management - Making It Work, Part 2: Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards for Navigation and Speed
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Strategy maps and scorecards are excellent tools in the quest for a strategy-supporting measurement system that links to operations and tactics. These are management tools that establish strong...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Case Studies
ABM in Manufacturing: A Case Study of a Gas Turbine Manufacturer
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Two years previously the Company had ambitious plans. Production capability was enhanced, it re-organised into high-tech machine cells, a number of new markets were opened up and a partnership...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Case Studies
Case Study: Improving the Profitability of a Supermarket Chain
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
One of the UK's supermarket chains had two Regional Distribution Centres serving 200 branches. The business wanted more refined distribution costs, a model of 'selling' (ie a typical branch), the...
Provided by Better Management.com
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Case Studies
Case Study: Improving the Profitability of a Supermarket Chain
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
One of the UK's supermarket chains had two Regional Distribution Centres serving 200 branches. The business wanted more refined distribution costs, a model of 'selling' (ie a typical branch), the...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
Case Studies
ABM in Manufacturing: A Case Study of a Gas Turbine Manufacturer
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Two years previously the Company had ambitious plans. Production capability was enhanced, it re-organised into high-tech machine cells, a number of new markets were opened up and a partnership...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Performance Management - Making It Work, Part 2: Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards for Navigation and Speed
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Strategy maps and scorecards are excellent tools in the quest for a strategy-supporting measurement system that links to operations and tactics. These are management tools that establish strong...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 3, so What Is ABM?
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Initially Activity Based Costing (ABC) was presented as a means of establishing product costs more accurately. The emergence of Activity Based Management (ABM) provided a means of enhancing...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement
May 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Use Strategic Communications to Execute Strategy: Why Strategic Communications Is so Critical
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Communications is critical to "Making Strategy Everyone's Job" in a Strategy-Focused Organization (SFO). Well performing organizations are far more likely than poor performing ones to have senior...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Benchmark Against "Frugal Leaders" to Improve ROI on IT
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part II
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
If economic value creation is the translation, through focused strategy, of intangible human into tangible commercial assets, then one can say that the learning-and-growth dimension of strategy...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Strategy Execution in Government Organizations
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Strategy Maps for Government Organizations
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
As today's government organizations continue to look for effective tools to improve performance management, leading organizations are leveraging the power of strategy maps to help execute...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
The Principles of Integrated Product Development
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Better customer relationships, frequent communication, and feedback systems lead to better understanding the customer's/user's needs. Customer involvement increases the probability of the product...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Managing IT According to a Hierarchy of Needs
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the author asserts that IT is a commodity and as such offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. As a result, the author suggests that IT...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues the Harvard Business School professor. Instead, business leaders should look for...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's,...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
May 8, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Cranfield School of Management Partners With BetterManagement.com to Bring Valuable Research and Insights to Industry
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
BetterManagement.com is the premier performance management Internet resource. The Cranfield School of Management has joined BetterManagement.com's elite group of strategic content partners....
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Balancing Measures: Best Practices in Performance Management, Part 2 of 4
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
There is no generic set of balanced measures that can be applied as best practice to all functions of the public sector. Certain conditions, however, need to exist within an organization for a...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Strategy Execution
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Are nonfinancial performance measures the key to better strategy execution? They are at the heart of describing strategy and of developing a unique set of performance measures that communicate...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
The Role of Performance Measures in Predictive Accounting, Part 1
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Predictive accounting seeks to understand the future. It is neither a crystal ball nor the wicked witch's mirror. It is based on the observation that all work comes from repeatable processes. A...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
In the Beginning...
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Management knowledge helps to improve an organization's performance. But how is management knowledge to be taught to the rank and file workers? Unfortunately, the field is too extensive for people...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Aligning for Success: Enterprise Performance Management
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
When birds migrate, they do so with a common goal - to get to a warmer climate for the winter months, a cooler one for the summer. For many of these birds, getting there successfully is a matter...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Putting an execution environment in place is hard, but losing it is easy. When a company executes well, its people are not victims of mistakes. And when a company executes well, its people are not...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Barriers to Performance Improvement
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Organizations begin performance management initiatives at any point - for example, one may begin with defining the corporate strategy and determining KPIs to support it. Others will initiate a...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Corporate Performance Management, Strategy Map and the Balanced Scorecard - Putting It All Together
May 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite a sea of collected data, organizations struggle with making sense of it to arrive at these answers. This is not surprising, since, organizations are typically data rich and information...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
White Papers
Minimize IT Risk With a Business Focused Capacity Plan
March 21, 2006, 12:00am PST
For many years Capacity Planning has been looked upon as a mainstream technical discipline. Whilst planning the future capacity of these entities is an absolute necessity for the infrastructure...
Provided by Better Management.com
-
Webcasts
Human Capital Planning for Success
June 22, 2004, 12:00am PDT
The Industrial Age has yielded to the Information Age. Employees are no longer "human resources" to be expended but tangible human capital assets to be developed and protected. Workforce planning...
Provided by Better Management.com
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