Beyond Performance Management

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BEST-PRACTICE REPORTING

What is this practice and how effective is it?

Best-practice reporting challenges the historic, detailed, and slow reporting systems that most large organizations have grown up with. Some organizations are encouraging people to fit their reports on one page and provide online reports as performance unfolds. This forces managers to be brief and ensure they get the key points across in a well-organized way. Done well, these concise reports help managers respond rapidly to changes in performance. We will show how best-practice reports are prepared and used in practice.

Alternative names and related topics: one page management; business analytics; management by exception

Managers can only respond to the information they ...