Performance Acceleration Management (PAM) : Rapid Improvement to Your Key Performance Drivers

Join videogame industry veteran Michael Thornton Wyman on a series of detailed, behind-the-scenes tours with the teams that have made some of the most popular and critically acclaimed videogames of the modern era. Drawing on insider''s perspectives from a wide variety of teams, learn about the creation of a tiny, independent game project (World of Goo), casual game classics (Diner Dash, Bejeweled Twist), the world''s most popular social game (FarmVille) as well as the world''s most popular MMORPG (World of Warcraft), PC titles (Half Life 2) to AAA console games (Madden NFL 10), and modern-day masterpieces (Little Big Planet, Rock Band, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves). Hear directly from the creators about how these games were made, and learn from their stories from the trenches of videogames production. This book is an excellent resource for those working directly on game design or production, for those aspiring to work in the field, or for anyone who has wondered how the world''s greatest videogames get made.

Organizations around the world are rating their improvement efforts as not producing the desired long-term results. Dr. Harrington‘s research indicates that this occurs because organizations are using the latest improvement tools and approaches without first defining how they want to change their organization‘s culture, environment, and key performance drivers.Organizations must first define what controllable factors drive business results. They then must define how they want to change these key performance drivers and behavioral patterns. Only then can they select a customized set of tools and approaches that will bring about the desired transformation.The first book in the Little Big Book Series, Performance Acceleration Management (PAM): Rapid Improvement to Your Key Performance Drivers, explains how to accelerate the rate of change and improvement in your organization to exceed your customers expectations. It introduces the PAM approach to accelerated performance improvement and explains how to use it to bring about significant change to your organization‘s long-term performance. Supplying answers to commonly asked questions, the book provides you with the understanding to:Conduct an improvement requirements assessmentDefine key drivers and develop vision statements for eachDefine desired behavioral patterns and performance goalsDevelop individual key performance driver (KPD) transformation plansDevelop and implement a five-year combined PAM planObtain approval from the executive teamDelving into more than 50 years of experience helping organizations implement improvement approaches, H. James Harrington highlights key opportunities to add value to your organization. With over 1,400 different improvement tools available today, this book provides a set of tools to define how you want to change your organization‘s key performance drive