Business Performance Management

(17 reviews)

by Ross Maynard

Business Performance Management (BPM) is a powerful tool but making it work for your organisation can be difficult. This course explains the essentials of BPM, and shows how data analysis, effective structures and problem solving contribute to improving performance.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

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This course will enable you to

  • Understand the basics of business performance management (BPM) and the relationship it has with organisational strategy
  • Understand the dynamics of your business by exploring organisational models
  • Learn about the value of data and how to present it in the most helpful way for BPM
  • Create agile team structures that maximise the effectiveness of performance management
  • Improve business performance by identifying and dealing with a problem's root causes

About the course

Business Performance Management (BPM) plays a crucial role in enabling organisations to achieve their goals. But BPM is a huge undertaking and deciding how to successfully implement it in your organisation can be a difficult task.

This course explains the essentials of BPM, and helps you to create the right measures. You will learn how to collect accurate and useful data and to analyse it. Finally, the course will help you create a team structure to manage the process efficiently.

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Contents

  • Establishing the objectives
    • What is business performance management?
    • The fundamentals
    • Why we need to manage performance
    • The role of management
    • The purpose of the organisation
    • Setting objectives
    • What is strategy?
  • Making measures
    • Making measures
    • From objectives to measures
    • Management by the numbers
    • Business excellence
    • Critical success factors
    • Selecting performance measures
  • Analysing data
    • Studying the data
    • Bad analysis leads to bad decisions
    • The three measures
    • Creating process output and in-process measures
    • When things go wrong
    • The management report
  • Creating a structure
    • A suitable structure
    • Beginning to build
    • Forming a team
    • Holding weekly meetings
    • The tools we need
    • Creating and developing teams
  • Improving business performance
    • Improvement culture
    • The right tools
    • Problem and goal statements
    • Getting involved
    • Root cause analysis
    • Working out solutions
    • Testing and implementing solutions
    • Parting words
    • Getting started

How it works

Author

Ross Maynard

Ross has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.

Reviews

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(17 reviews)
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    KA
    Kagiso A
    10 Mar 2025
    10 Mar 2025
    good material and examples
    SS
    Samantha S
    09 Oct 2024
    09 Oct 2024
    Practical, clear and useful training
    DM
    Deb M
    02 Jan 2024
    02 Jan 2024
    Concise and well presented
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