Leading with SPI: Driving Productivity and Profit with Strategic Performance Improvement

Introducing the most powerful way to lead your business towards higher productivity and profit. LEADING WITH SPI drives to the heart of the business, connecting strategy to execution using simple techniques and tools to drive better decisions that result in more productive and profitable activity across every part of the business. The SPI methodology goes beyond traditional CPM, merging proven concepts into a simple, cohesive and agile framework that not only manages performance today, but continues to improve it in the future. It is the most powerful way to execute strategy and measure results known in management today. SPI gets you ahead of the competition, underpinning the strategic success of business in the future. SPI will help you focus your strategy and discover the critical success factors that guide your ability to deliver value to the customer. Learn how to use the SPM model to define the questions you should be asking at key decision points in your business, and to use meaningful KPI to deliver measurable success through a culture of positive learning and continuous improvement. LEADING WITH provides detailed step-by-step processes on how to: * Analyze your strategy to discover those critical success factors that help focus your organization on doing the right things * Uncover customer value processes with key decision points that are optimal points for productivity improvement * Help you define the questions that need to be asked to make better decisions, and the information you need to answer them with a higher probability of success * Develop meaningful KPI that drive profitable outcomes * Reveal hidden insights that get your business thinking less about the past and more about the future. This book will challenge outdated thinking and lead you to higher productivity and performance, making strategic execution everyone's job. A BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT MODEL YOU CAN START IMPLEMENTING TODAY - WITH IMMEDIATE RESULTS?

Gail La Grouw is a leading authority in strategic performance improvement. As an ex airline pilot and with over 25 years experience helping organizations become more successful, across multiple countries, multiple industries, Gail not only understands how businesses operate, but also has in-depth understanding of performance enhancing technology. You won’t get much twinkling of the eye talking about servers and routers, but get onto the topic of business intelligence, CPM and the impact of cloud computing, and the passion starts flowing. It is this very passion that has lead Gail to share her knowledge through multiple channels - including books, speaking, videos, audios, online learning and seminars. A highly pragmatic practitioner, Gail doesn’t get caught up in the political trappings like many top consultants - she prefers to get the job done as efficiently and effectively as possible - and it is that very same approach she takes with her books and seminars. Don’t expect to be lead around the mulberry bush to get to the point. Gail goes directly there - and takes you there with her, providing you with all the details on how you can follow. She doesn’t just preach why you should do something, and what to do; she tells you exactly how, step by step. How to make better use of technology to not only improve your performance now, but to keep improving it year after year. If you get the time to read one of her books or attend one of her events - you won’t be disappointed. Gail delivers real value that keeps working for you well after your initial time invested.