Centre for Business Performance
Outcome based commissioning
At yesterday’s roundtable, Jeff Boateng made a presentation on how they were trying to implement outcome based commissioning for Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group. As head of performance he has been helping the group ...
Feedforward Anticipatory Control
Today was graduation day at Cranfield University and Mark Baker (or as we should now cal him Dr Mark Baker) won the best doctoral thesis award for his work on the use of feedforaward control in the ...
Advice for Finance Directors
Two interesting pieces of advice were given by the economist panel at this morning’s ICAEW Finance Directors conference. 1. Tony Greenham from the New Economics Foundation suggested that in developing economies such as the UK, ...
Black Belt and Post Graduate Certificate in Managing Performance Improvement
At the end of March, Cranfield University started its first module with Unipart entitled “Managing Performance Improvement” The programme combines elements of lean and six sigma thinking, which will lead to a Black Belt awarded ...
Failure to pay bonuses as a commercial risk?
Royal Bank of Scotland today have announced that they are going to cap their bonuses at 100% of salaries. They are doing this rather than attempting to apply for the 200% bonus after UK Financial ...
Wednesday’s Business performance Rountable meeting
The next business performance roundtable meeting is at Cranfield on Wednesday 8th April. We will be looking at the management of risk using some best practice case studies, performance management in policing and different performance ...