Measure, Monitor, and Manage What Matters...

Easy concept to understand, but most organizations are still struggling with executing performance management.

• What are the right measures, do you have too little or too many, and is there a magic number?
• Are you using the right performace methods to monitor and analyze your data - dashboards, scorecards, Six Sigma?
• What is the role of leadership in sustaining the performance management process?

With more demand than ever placed on executives and managers to provide increased visibility, coordination between departments, and actionable information – companies are looking for effective ways to measure, monitor, and manage what really matters in order to execute their strategy and provide real value for their stakeholders.

What Will You Learn?

• Discover the difference between dashboards, scorecards, and frameworks
• Understand how to link metrics to your corporate strategy and goals
• Differentiate between KPIs and metrics and key criteria of each
• Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of implementing a performance management process
• Uncover the right analytical applications that can drive breakthrough performance
• Hear how organizations effectively measure, manage, and mitigate risk
• Dive into creating a performance culture and change management
• Arm yourself with manager buy-in strategies and leadership skills

Join us at Palladium’s Business Performance Conference where you will gain the insights necessary to align strategy with corporate goals and execute performance across key areas of your organization. In addition to best-practice case studies and industry luminary keynotes, delegates will have the unique opportunity to
engage directly with the experts and presenters during facilitated discussion forums immediately following each theme. Our conference format is unique. Each theme and session builds upon the concepts, linking together critical components of performance management in a way that allows you to take a step back, absorb, discuss, and begin to apply what you have learned to your own unique situation. 

Conference Themes     

Measure What Matters

The fact that organizations require performance measures to manage performance is no
surprise. In fact, the need for robust measures is more important than ever. However, experience
shows that organizations struggle to choose the right ones. Many companies fail to link their
performance measures to strategy, leading to dramatic disconnects in performance. Others
neglect to clarify how non-financial measures lead to financial results. Finally, there are
still many organizations struggling with the best way to combine strategic and operational
measures with the enabling technology to support robust data acquisition and analysis. This
theme, using a combination of thought leaders and case studies, offers provocative points of
view on the state of today’s thinking around performance measurement.
 

Monitor What You Measure

Having data is great. Actually, doing something with data is even better. Too many companies
still grapple with how to analyze their data to support improved decision-making. While the
numbers are growing, there are still many organizations unable to conduct basic data analysis
which might reveal hidden connections and enrich their understanding of what drives
performance. Understanding the drivers and levers that can be controlled allows nimble
organizations to react to changing market conditions and to constantly meet expectations.
This theme builds on the previous one with the focus shifting from measurement to
thinking through how to monitor and use the information supplied by your performance
management system.

 
Manage for Excellence

It sounds simple. Select measures, link strategy and operations together in a seamless strategy
management system, build a report, and you are a best practice! It turns out, that things are
more complicated than they seem. Good data and high quality reporting must be combined
with a meaningful investment of an executive’s time. Why? Because, adopting a performance
management system that links strategy to operations is about change. Such a system creates
focus and energy around key strategic objectives, and only strong leadership can ensure this
focus is not diluted. This theme will cover how best practice organizations adopt a strategy
review meeting format, manage organizational change, and drive the sustainability of their
performance management process.

Who Should Attend?

Whether your organization is far down the path of performance excellence, just starting
out, or struggling somewhere in between trying to gain momentum, Palladium’s Business
Performance Conference provides the powerful insights needed for success.

• CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CXOs, Presidents
• Chief Strategy Officers
• Strategic/Corporate Planners and Managers
• Directors of Strategy Development/Formulation
• Strategy, Planning, and Business Analysts
• VPs and Directors of Performance Management
• Executive Leadership Teams
• General Managers and SBU/Line of Business Leaders
• Strategic Change Agents