Beyond Budgeting
How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Business & Finance, Finance & Investing, Finance
| Author: | Jeremy Hope, Robin Fraser | ISBN: | 9781422163252 |
| Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press | Publication: | February 25, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Harvard Business Review Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jeremy Hope, Robin Fraser |
| ISBN: | 9781422163252 |
| Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Publication: | February 25, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Language: | English |
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond Budgeting offers an alternative, coherent management model that overcomes the limitations of traditional budgeting. Focused around achieving sustained improvement relative to competitors, it provides a guiding framework for managing in the twenty-first century.
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond Budgeting offers an alternative, coherent management model that overcomes the limitations of traditional budgeting. Focused around achieving sustained improvement relative to competitors, it provides a guiding framework for managing in the twenty-first century.
