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Drive Business Performance

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Drive Business Performance

Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution

Wiley,

15 min read
10 take-aways
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What's inside?

Data, analytics, planning, oh my! Here’s how to make them work for you.

Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

Microsoft strategists Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts want to help readers straddle the “technical” and the “theoretical.” To that end, they’ve created a practical, useful tool to help companies deliver dependable data, analytical rigor and sound planning. Aziza and Fitts emphasize that your company can’t win unless you empower your workforce to be fully in control of its own data – the data employees need to make independent choices and advance your organization’s overall goals. While the authors’ passion and knowledge shine through, their text might have benefited from some closer editing. It can be lucent, but it also can be heavy reading at times. Because Aziza and Fitts wrote for those who live with data daily, getAbstract recommends their insights to executives, managers, analysts and IT pros.

Summary

“Performance Management”

Performance management begins by properly combining data and decision making to improve your organization. Finding the right combination requires discipline and strategic thinking. But having a great strategy isn’t enough. To excel, you have to execute.

Many factors work against you when it comes to executing your strategy. It is possible, and even likely, that most of your employees don’t really understand your organization’s strategy. You may have no guarantee that your board backs you or that your budget ties directly to your strategic goals. If such confusion abounds, it can lead the people who execute strategy for your company to use tactics that are not moored to its strategic intent and might even work against its strategic plans. Performance management based on solid data works six ways to clarify confusion, generate understanding and ensure that your workforce executes the intended strategy:

  1. It can “increase visibility” by using information to show what is really happening and how to make meaningful improvements.
  2. It can move people “beyond gut feel” by replacing guesswork with “data-driven decisions...

About the Authors

Bruno Aziza is the worldwide managing director of analytics and business platform marketing of Microsoft Business Intelligence. Joey Fitts is a performance management consultant. He works on Microsoft’s Information Worker Strategy.

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