Innovative Corporate Performance Management: Five Key Principles to Accelerate Results

Preface

What do award-winning companies know that eludes most of today’s executives? How do they organize and innovate to achieve outstanding results in their fields of endeavor? What core and innovative processes and best practices do they have in common to leverage in challenging times to succeed? How have they overcome what a recent CEO study calls the “Change Gap,” or the ability to innovate and change in a challenging market?

In good times, strengths and weaknesses of a business model are often overlooked. In bad times, as with the global recession, weaknesses often come to the forefront. Market forces and prolonged recession have caused organizations to rethink their business models and innovate through best practices. I was intrigued how several companies have thrived and innovated.

Since my first book, Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management , I have researched a new class of winning organizations.

The case companies in this book have amassed over 175 noteworthy awards. Research with brand-new award winners over the past two years revealed over 130 new, innovative corporate performance management (CPM) best practices for this book; hence I selected the title Innovative Corporate Performance Management: Five Key Principles to Accelerate Results.

As for the roadmap, Chapter 1 reveals survey results from over 1,000 global CEOs on their expectations for continued change and moreover their ability to manage change, the “Change Gap.” Chapter 2 includes case companies’ ...