Managing Performance Improvement Projects
Managing Performance Improvement Projects

Author: Jim Fuller

Publisher: Pfeiffer

Published: 1997-05-07

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Lead work projects from beginning to end . . . and make humanperformance technology happen! Copublished with the International Society for PerformanceImprovement (ISPI) Project teams are growing rapidly as performance improvementsolutions become more complex. Project management methods arebecoming necessary to successfully coordinate these large teams.Develop the skills you need to effectively manage your budget,time, and the quality of work on human performance technologyprojects. All the essential aspects of project development areaddressed, and the process is broken down into three main areas:preparing, planning, and implementing. You'll develop the skills to: * Define projects * Accelerate project development * Obtain sponsorship * Act as a consultant * Plan infrastructures * Create work breakdown structures * Identify depAndency relationships * Manage resources and optimize the plans * Analyze risks and plan for contingencies * Estimate schedules . . . and more! Learn what needs to be done after you finish a project to ensuresuccess. Don't just squeak by with mediocre management. Mediocremanagement can stifle the development of great ideas. Ideas willget projects started. But you won't achieve superior resultswithout effective management. Implement Fuller's project management process today and getresults!

Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams
Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams

Author: William S. Ruggles

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1351643967

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Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (PITs)—and their Project Managers on how to successfully complete individual projects and programs using an ingenious and scalable framework based on an innovative foundation fusing together elements of Project Management, Innovation Management, and Continual Improvement. This book lays out how Project and Program Managers and their teams can "do those right projects the right way," one project at a time. It details what continual improvement, change, and innovation are, why they are so important, and how they apply to performance improvement—both incremental and transformative. The authors examine the four types of work and workforce management in organizations, Strategic, Operations, Projects, and Crises, using four common comparative variables: Proactive/Preventive versus Reactive/Corrective, Temporary/Unique versus Ongoing/Repetitive, Innovative versus Maintaining the Status Quo, and Schedule Focus: Fiscal Year versus Short Term versus Long Term. These comparisons set the stage for the uniqueness of the third type: Projects (and Programs) that are fundamentally change-driven.

Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems
Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems

Author: James R. Langabeer II

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1351584944

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Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance. Hospitals and clinics are generally large, complex, and inefficient, and need serious development in process workflow and management systems, which will ultimately lead to better patient and financial outcomes. The National Academy of Medicine has stated that hospital systems are broken, and that they must begin by "... improving hospital efficiency and patient flow, and using operational management methods and information technologies." In fact, costs and quality are two of the important aspects of the "triple aim" in healthcare. One area that offers significant potential for improvement is through the application of performance improvement methods to patient and process flows. Performance improvement has a significant impact on a hospital’s over financial and strategic performance. Performance improvement involves the deployment of quantitative and scientific methods to model and influence the functioning of organizations. Performance improvement professionals are tasked with managing a variety of activities, such as deploying new information technologies, serving as project managers for construction events, re-engineering departmental process workflow, eliminating bottlenecks, and improving the flow and movement of patients between resource-intensive clinical areas. All of these are high risk, and require use of advanced, sophisticated methods to improve efficiency and quality, while minimizing disruptions from change. This updated edition is a comprehensive and concise guide to performance improvement in healthcare. It describes the management engineering principles focused on designing optimal management and information systems and processes. Case studies and examples are integrated throughout all chapters.

Improving Performance
Improving Performance

Author: Geary A. Rummler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1118143701

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Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded new edition, Gary Rummler reflects on the key needs of organizations faced with today's challenge of managing change in today's complex world. The book shows how to apply the three levels of performance and link performance to strategy, move from annual programs to sustained performance improvement, redesign processes, overcome the seven deadly sins of performance improvement and much more.

Corporate Performance Management Best Practices
Corporate Performance Management Best Practices

Author: Bob Paladino

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1118507452

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Business improvement best practices and a proven methodology for improving corporate performance management, illustrated through a high performing program including numerous team case studies Corporate performance management consists of a set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It provides a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices will help your organization benchmark itself against the best. Written by the winner of three globally accepted performance management awards Focuses on a single case study chronicling a health care system's corporate performance management journey Explores how the use of corporate performance management methods has created significant and broad based improvements in patient satisfaction scores, medical outcomes, people development, and corporate shared services and clinical processes Revealing practical techniques that can be adopted at all levels of an organization, from facilities manager to HR manager to CFO to CEO, Corporate Performance Management Best Practices provides a proven implementation model that accelerates breakthrough results.

Managing Performance Improvement
Managing Performance Improvement

Author: Lynne F. Baxter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-16

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1134211651

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This key book takes a critical view of the techniques and approaches available for implementing successful performance improvement initiatives, drawing on extensive real-world case studies and the authors experiences of researching in this area.

Improving project performance using the PRINCE2 maturity model (P2MM)
Improving project performance using the PRINCE2 maturity model (P2MM)

Author: Andy Murray

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2007-07-31

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780113310319

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The purpose of the guide is to help organisations gain full value from the PRINCE2 method by providing practical advice on using its Maturity Model (P2MM). The guide shows how P2MM can be used: to help implement PRINCE2 for first time users; re-invigorate existing implementations; help organisations improve their project performance; as a benchmark to assess organisational capability and plan improvements; as a means of gaining external recognition for organisational capability; and as part of a wider goal to improve Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management performance.

Facilitating Project Performance Improvement
Facilitating Project Performance Improvement

Author: Jerry JULIAN

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2010-02-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0814415334

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Waiting until the end of a project to identify “lessons learned” is too late. By that time, the project may be ready for the scrap heap. But if your projects and programs include multi-level learning, you’ll not only be fostering continuous improvements for the future, you’ll be well-equipped to reduce the risk of failure while projects are “in-flight” so you can deliver maximum value to your client organization. Facilitating Project Performance Improvement helps any organization: • Reduce time to market for new products, systems, processes and technologies • Improve customer and end-user satisfaction with project outcomes • Reduce risk of failure, wasted investment, and project runaway • Improve productivity, quality and teamwork • Continuously improve delivery both within and across projects. Organizations simply cannot afford to leave learning to chance on their mission-critical investments. Facilitating Project Performance Improvement provides a practical approach to structured learning and reflection that enables teams to innovate and improve, ensuring both immediate and long-term project success.

Human Performance Improvement
Human Performance Improvement

Author: William J. Rothwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 113639737X

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Today's dynamic organizations must achieve positive results in record time - a challenge that requires managers to avoid problems before they arise and to solve these issues quickly. Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a powerful tool that can be used to help build intellectual capital, establish and maintain a 'high-performance workplace, enhance profitability, and encourage productivity' - as well as increase return on equity and improved safety. Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field, this book will show you how to:- - discover and analyze performance gaps - plan for future improvements in human performance - design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps.

Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation
Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation

Author: Van Tiem, Darlene M.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1799836754

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Companies in today’s market are continually looking for techniques that will enhance and improve their overall performance. The rise of data analytics in recent years has changed the way managers are viewing performance methods within an organization. Innovative strategies in developing organizational execution are becoming more accessible; however, there remains a lack of research on performance improvement methods through scientific analysis. Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation is a collection of innovative research that illustrates many applications of performance improvement based on analysis, selection of strategy, monitoring, and evaluating results to accomplish organizational change through people, processes, and organizations. While highlighting topics including intervention analysis, organizational development, and human performance technology, this book is ideally designed for students, researchers, executives, managers, practitioners, educators, and academicians seeking current research on contemporary innovations in organizational performance.