Helping organisations measure, report, and improve performance
Upcoming Workshops
For 2010, David Parmenter has confirmed speaking events in a number of countries. A full list is available here.
David Parmenter's Books
Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
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Pareto’s 80/20 rule for corporate accountants
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Featured White papers For Sale
David Parmenter sells a number of white papers based on 'How-To Implement...' designed for the corporate accountant who wants to make a difference. These guides give you the A-to-Z steps to implementing practices from winning finance teams. All papers are supported with additional electronic material.
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Learning Outcomes:
Attendees after this workshop will be able to:
- Describe the new thinking on performance measures
- Distinguish KRIs, PIs and KPIs
- Identify how KPIs can work in your organisation
- Recall the steps for implementing this methodology
- Use better practice reporting templates
- Identify some performance measures of relevance to your organisation
- Recall all agreements made at the workshop (these will be documented)
Pre work:
Attendees to access the David Parmenter material on bettermanagement.com.
Suggested attendees:
- CEO
- Senior Management Team
- Cross section of managers
- Supervisors and staff
- The KPI project team
Requirements:
- event secretary to document agreements as they are reached in the workshop
- laptops
- data show
- whiteboards
- screen
- lapel microphone
| 8:20 | Introduction from CEO |
| 8:30 | The new thinking on key performance indicators by David Parmenter
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| 9:30 | Commence workshop #1 on short listing the critical success factors of the organisation: All work that has been already done in this area will be tabled to attendees (e.g. extracted from last few year’s strategic plans) |
| 10:30 | Morning tea |
| 10:50 | Re-commence workshop #1 weighting of CSFs to come up with a 5 to 8 CSFs |
| 11:20 | Commence workshop 2 design key result indicators for the current strategic plan (this task will take a further 2-4 week period to finalise) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 12:45 pm | Commence workshop 3 short list performance measures for business units (this task will take a further 10-16 week period to finalise) |
| 2:00 pm | Feedback from business units |
| 2:20 pm | Afternoon tea |
| 2:40 pm | Commence workshop 4 brainstorm some performance measures for the organisation (this task will take a further 10-16 week period to finalise) |
| 3:40 pm | Short presentation on the way forward by David Parmenter |
| 4:20 pm | In-house team complete documentation on lap tops (covering CSFs, some measures worth pursuing, the first draft of the next steps, resource requirements etc ) |
| 4:40 pm | In-house team’s state their next steps |
| 5:00 pm | Finish of workshop |