The Evidence: Performance Effects of the HPO Framework
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Since the introduction of the HPO framework in 2007, many organizations have undergone an HPO transformation. Often, an HPO diagnosis marked the beginning of the journey towards high performance. This allowed us to closely study the application and performance effects of the HPO framework in various organizations worldwide. Many of our findings have been published […]
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 […]
How high-performing is the HPO Framework?
Monday, 19 August 2019
I regularly get the question whether the HPO Framework is high-performing itself, in the sense that it will stay valid and be around for an extended period. Of course, it is difficult to look into the future but I think I might have a satisfactory answer on this question, which is basically twofold. Regarding the validity of the HPO […]
DEFINING AND MEASURING THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION
Monday, 16 July 2018
Since the publication of the seminal work ‘In Search of Excellence’ (Peters and Waterman, 1982) organizations have been interested in becoming a high performance organization (HPO). This interest became even fiercer after the phenomenal success of the books ‘Built to Last’ (Collins and Porras, 1994) and ‘Good to Great’ (Collins, 2001), the increasing globalization and […]
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. […]
But professor … how do we start the transition to HPO?
Thursday, 8 February 2018
That’s a question I have been asked on numerous occasions. After a passionate plea about the benefits of the HPO Framework for the organisation, and showing what the HPO Diagnosis and HPO Insight™ improvementtool entails, a member of the management team would stand up and ask me: “So professor, how do we start the transition to HPO?” […]
Developing a change approach for the transition to an HPO
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
The purpose of this study – Developing a change approach for HPO – is to help managers in their constant quest to create and implement new sources of competitive advantage and ways to achieve sustainable high performance to become a high performance organization (HPO) – defined as an organization that achieves financial and non-financial results that are exceedingly better […]
In the Navy! … (where the HPO Framework is also applicable)
Monday, 4 December 2017
Beforehand I confess: I don’t know anything about the Navy, except what the song of the Village People tells me, arguably not the best source of information about this famous institution. A much better source is a recent article by Suzanne J. Wood, assistant professor at the University of Washington. Prof. Wood interviewed Matthew L. […]
Yes, high performance is also possible in non-profits
Monday, 6 November 2017
The majority of my HPO research has been performed in profit organisations. But occasionally I get access to a non-profit organisation which is very interesting to me as the non-profit sector is quite different from the profit sector. Therefore, an HPO Diagnosis is always special as the context of non-profits forces me to get out of my […]