Power of Performance Management: How Leading Companies Create Sustained Value

by André de Waal

A groundbreaking new approach to creating and delivering world-class shareholder value
Creating the right performance management framework is the key to delivering sustained, world-class value. Under increasing pressure from shareholders to create sustained wealth, CFOs, CEOs, and controllers are desperate for new business planning methods that will help them meet constantly growing expectations. This book provides the framework for developing a strategic plan to develop world-class performance management capabilities. Numerous case studies and best practice examples help identify the key issues companies face in their drive to deliver and create value as well as the new role management must play in order to maximize performance management capabilities. The book also explores the various information technologies that support performance management.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 12, 2001

About the author

As an independent boardroom advisor and researcher, André de Waal PhD, MBA, MSc has advised over 200 global companies on strategic performance management and high performance issues. His consultations with his client companies and professional management associations span five continents including many emerging markets.

André has conducted over five years of scientific research, examining and analyzing 290 international studies and surveying 1,470 profit, non-profit and government organizations in 50 countries. The results of his study into the factors that make and sustain High Performance Organizations are found within the pages of this book.

André de Waal, is Academic Director of the HPO Center, an organization which conducts research into high performance organizations. He is also Associate Professor of High Performance Organizations at the Maastricht School of Management, guest lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, and visiting fellow at Cranfield University (United Kingdom).

André has published over two hundred fifty articles and twenty-four books. His articles have been published worldwide by British Academy of Management, Business Strategy Series (Emerald), Chief Learning Officer, Leadership Excellence, MSNBC.com, and many more.