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Helping organisations measure, report, and improve performance

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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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Upcoming Workshops

For 2010, David Parmenter has confirmed speaking events in a number of countries. A full list is available here.

In-House Workshop on Key Performance Indicators (One Day)

Learning Outcomes:

Attendees after this workshop will be able to:

Pre work

Attendees to access the David Parmenter material on bettermanagement.com

Suggested attendees

Requirements

Event secretary to document agreements as they are reached in the workshop, laptops , data show, white boards, screen, lapel microphone.

8.20

Introduction from CEO

8.30

The new thinking on key performance indicators by David Parmenter

  • The difference between the 3 types of performance measures
  • The characteristics of a winning KPI - two stories
  • The 10,80,10 rule for performance measures
  • Critical success factors
  • A case study

Each business unit will be represented in the workshop.

9.30

Workshop 1
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. from last few year's strategic plans)

10.30

Morning tea

10. 50

Continue Workshop 1
Weighting of CSFs to come up with a 5 to 8 CSFs

11.20

Workshop 2
Design key result indicators for the current strategic plan (this task will take a further 2-4 week period to finalise)

12.00pm

Lunch

12.45pm

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

2.40pm

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 laptops (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