Book description
A practical framework for effectively managing performance in today's
complex, competitive and risky global markets
The Third Edition provides a complete framework for building
best practice management processes for today's complex and uncertain
world. Fully updated to reflect the events of the global economic
crisis, this book provides further practical examples of companies
that are successfully using the practices identified.
- Updated for the implications of the global economic crisis on
management practices
- Completely rewritten section on "What it Takes To Be An
Effective Manager In An Uncertain World
- Added examples and mini case studies throughout the book from
companies such as Qualcomm, IBM, Dominos, Target, Toshiba and Facebook
- Establishes new benchmarks for performance management process
and practice
- Fully updated to include recent events, new learnings,
technologies and emerging best practices
This book includes serious rethinking of the way companies plan and
manage performance-from the role of accounting to the skills needed to
be an effective manager-including new technologies, techniques and
real time management processes.
DAVID A. J. AXSON is President of the Sonax Group,
a business advisory firm. He is a former head of corporate planning at
Bank of America and was a cofounder of The Hackett Group, where he was
the architect of the firm's market-leading benchmarks bank. He is a
sought-after speaker and writer on best practices in planning and
performance management reporting, and is widely regarded as a thought
leader in the industry.
