Towards High Performance School (HPS) with the HPO Framework
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The Key to a Strong Internal Organization Schools face numerous challenges, including ensuring quality education, dealing with staff shortages, and addressing inequality of opportunity. To effectively tackle these challenges, it is crucial to particularly strengthen the internal organization of the school. Traditionally, educational research has focused on improving the quality of education in schools. This […]
We don’t need fewer managers … we need more HPO managers!
Monday, 16 July 2018
For some time now, it has been fashion to complain about managers. More specifically: to state that they are an evil for contemporary organizations and that we all would be better off without them. I am not one of those people who says that we need fewer managers and that they should go. In my […]
How to get and keep good people …. by increasing the attractiveness of your organisation
Thursday, 10 May 2018
People generally spend a large part of their lives in the workplace and for many the work they do forms a big part of their identity. It is no wonder then that the concept of ‘happiness at work’ (HAW) has received a lot of attention. It stands to reason that people who are happier at […]
Increasing organisational attractiveness – The role of the HPO and happiness at work frameworks
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Purpose – Happiness at work (HAW) is receiving much attention in the literature, as Happiness at work seems to have a positive effect on organisational performance, such as in increase of productivity, lower turnover of employees and less customer complaints. There is however no research into the relation between Happiness at work and the attractiveness of an organisation. […]
Investigating the causal link between a management improvement technique and organizational performance
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
The case of the HPO framework Purpose – An important question in contemporary research is: do certain management practices cause better performance or do better performing organizations find it easier to adopt certain management practices? This question is also of importance when applying the high performance organization (HPO) framework, which is a scientifically validated technique designed to achieve […]
What makes an excellent internal or external High Performance Partnerships?
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Dr. André de Waal tells you more about High Performance Partnership (HPP) research and how you can improve internal and external collaboration based on HPP.
HPO Diagnosis in 2 minutes (animation)
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
As a manager you do recognize this? No matter how much improvement initiatives you start, it never leads to serious long-term results. Besides, the widely discussed reorganisation leads more often to restlessness and agitation than to actual improvement. Despite the fact that nothing seems to be working, you know that something has to happen […]
Achieving High Performance in the United Arab Emirates: The Case of biz-group
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
By André de Waal, Miriam Frijns and Mirna Mroueh Operating within a foreign trade zone in Dubai, biz-group has built a solid reputation as a provider of corporate training, team building, and strategic services for organizations throughout the United Arab Emirates. Driven by its motto, “Passionate about performance,” the company strives to engender cooperation among […]
The HPO Framework: guideline for mergers
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
KEY MESSAGE As is well known by now, the majority of mergers and acquisitions end in failure. Failure in the sense that expected synergies – either in cost savings or complementary portfolios – never materialized and that the sum of the parts turns out to be less valuable than the separate entities. It would therefore […]
8 ideas to get started with improving your business process
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Business process improvement, process simplification and process alignment Business process improvement is defined as ‘the act of making internal business operations better.’ Business process simplification is defined as ‘the act of making internal business operations easier.’ Business process alignment is defined as ‘the act of bringing internal business operations in line with each other.’ People in an HPO […]