Performance Management Expert dr. André de Waal MBA
Performance Management expert Dr. André de Waal MBA conducted a five year-long study into High Performance Organizations. With his extensive knowledge and research work on performance management, André de Waal has become a well-kno ...
Performance Improvement
Performance Improvement starts you on your way towards better performance. One of the pillars of a High Performance Organization (HPO) is continuous improvement and renewal. This is no easy task. But, year after year, HPOs perform better than compara ...
Performance Methods
There are numerous methods available on the market for improving your organization’s performance. External advisers and consultants are also often brought in to help improve performance. But in order to make lasting changes, you need to be awar ...
Resume: Alex Meingast (Operational Director HPO Center)
Alex Meingast was born in 1960 in The Hague. After finishing his college-prep courses, he completed his compulsory military service and began studying German Languages and Literature at the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden. After interning at Twijnstra Gu ...
Resume: Dr Andre de Waal MBA (Partner and Academic Director HPO Center)
Dr André A. de Waal MBA (born 1960) is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Maastricht School of Management, Academic Director of the HPO Center (Center for Organizational Performance), an organization that researches and gi ...
Resume: Chiel Vink (Partner and Commercial Director HPO Center)
Chiel Vink (born 1956) obtained comprehensive business experience in the banking world; he worked for 25 years at the ABN Amro bank in various line and staff positions. He holds various advisory positions and commissionerships. In 2004 he set out to ...
Resume: Esther Mollema (general director of the HPO Center)
Esther Mollema is a much sought-after speaker and program leader in the area of change management, (female) leadership, high performance organizations, quality and management and employees and strategic management development. After completing her ...
Resume: Marco Schreurs (Partner and Marketing Director of the HPO Center)
Marco Schreurs (born 1971) is a co-founder of Direction Europe (est. 1999) and the HPO Center (est. 2007). From Direction, Marco has been involved in setting up the Center for Organizational Performance since 2004. Marco is responsible for the m ...
High Performance Organization (HPO) success factor: Quality of Employees
Aspects of high-quality employees Linked to the first HPO factor – high management quality - this HPO factor is the quality of employees. This HPO Success factor has four characteristics. Members of an HPO always want to be held accountable f ...
High Performance Organization (HPO) success factor: Continuous Improvement and Renewal
Aspects of continuous improvement and innovation (renewal) This factor, which determines whether an organization is and will remain an HPO, is constant improvement and renewal, or innovation. In an HPO all employees feel the moral obligation to alwa ...
High Performance Organization (HPO) success factor: Long-Term Orientation
Aspects of long-term orientation This HPO factor is the long-term mindset of an organization: long-term continuity always comes before short-term profit at an HPO. The long-term mindset focuses on all interested parties of an organization: customers ...
High Performance Organization (HPO) success factor: Openness and Action Orientation
Aspects of openness and action orientation The HPO factor that emerged from the study is an open, action-oriented organizational culture. In an HPO everyone devotes much time and attention to communication, exchange of knowledge and learning in orde ...
High Performance Organization (HPO) Success factor: Management Quality
High Performance Organization (HPO) Success factor: Management Quality Aspects of management quality The first and most important factor that determines whether an organization is and remains an HPO is the quality of the organization’s manage ...
