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January 2009 - Review of KPI Seminar appears in Human Resources Leader
Teresa Russell reviews the seminar conducted by Graham Kenny, called Key Performance Indicators: How to Develop KPIs That Link To Strategy, and concludes that she'd certainly recommend it to others - but not to her competitors.
September 2008 - Diversification Blueprint by Graham Kenny - Official Launch of Book
Click here for details, see reviewer's comments, purchase book, and read the first chapter - it's free and available online. (84KB)What could be more important today than understanding how to manage a diversified organisation? Hence the importance of this well researched and eminently practical book – which is aptly titled Diversification Blueprint. It explains how successful diversifiers bring seven key characteristics into play.
September 2007 – Sure-Fire Steps to Small Business Success by Graham Kenny – Official Launch of Book
Click here for details, see reviewer's comments, purchase book, and read the first chapter - it's free and available online. (99KB)It is essential for a small business to find that special position it needs to be successful. Find it and your small business will survive, prosper, and even make super-normal profits. Miss it and it will languish, become the dross of competitive endeavour, struggle to survive and probably collapse. Discovering the unique position a small business must occupy and exploit is what this book is about.
August 2007 – Operationalising the Key Stakeholder Concept in Developing Competitive Strategy. Professional Development Workshop presented at the US Academy of Management Conference in Philadelphia.
Conducted by Graham Kenny, the workshop demonstrated a theoretically rigorous and practically simple method, we call the Strategic Factor System, to develop effective competitive strategies for all organisations - no matter what their industry.
August 2007 – Performance Measurement: Developing Non-Financial and Leading Indicators. Professional Development Workshop presented at the US Academy of Management Conference in Philadelphia.
Graham Kenny conducted this workshop to demonstrate an effective method for developing non-financial performance measures and leading indicators. The presentation also showed the Strategic Factor System's use in developing corporate key performance indicators via its application to the Main Roads Department of Western Australia.
It analyses the failings of the Balanced Scorecard. The results from organisations that have adopted it demonstrate that its four perspectives are purely arbitrary and these lead to incomplete measurement. This article (previously published in Management) demonstrates a new perspective to replace it. This leads organisations to develop effective outcome-focused key performance indicators. (139KB)
January 2005 - Strategic Planning and Performance Management - Official Launch of Book Internationally.
Strategic Factors: Develop and Measure Winning Strategy has gone international with its publication in the UK, US, Europe and other countries. Produced by the publishing giant, Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, Graham Kenny's book, with a new title, finds its way onto British, American and European bookshelves. Graham's book becomes one of only a handful of Australian-authored management books to go international.
Here's one international reviewer's comments:
"I find the framework presented by Graham Kenny to be a better alternative to the Kaplan and Norton 'balanced scorecard' approach to strategic management .... The practical advice and useful examples presented throughout make for a compelling and enlightening read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book."
Jon Down, PhD. Professor of Strategic Management, College of Business, Oregon State University
In his review Greg Latemore writes "This book provides a clear recipe for defining, implementing and measuring strategy...... The real strength of the book is its clarity, practicality and accessibility. I recommend it." (141KB)
April 2002 - The Australian Financial Review - Boss magazine looks at the favourite books of some business leaders
Robert Scherini, Managing Director, Johnson and Johnson Medical says "I have also found some helpful insights in Strategic Factors (President Press), by an Australian, Graham Kenny....Management often gets caught up in the operational side of the business and doesn't devote sufficient time to implementation of strategy."
Click here to read Vicki Jayne's article.One reason organisations underperform is that management lacks a common language, says Australian consultant and author Graham Kenny. Take the concept of strategy, for instance: "People can't talk to each other about such topics because there is no agreed definition.
"It's like having accountants sitting down to discuss financial issues and not having the same definition of an asset or a liability, or depreciation. Accounting would be chaos - and quite frankly, a lot of management is chaotic, because there is no clear understanding of what strategy is".
September 2001 - Launch of Strategic Factors Network
Click here to read about it or join the Network - Its Free!
Here is the book that shows how strategic factors lie at the heart of organisational success – in both private and public, profit and non-profit, manufacturing and service sectors. The book establishes that strategic factors dwell in an organisation’s or business unit’s relationship with its key stakeholders. It also brings together as never before, strategic analysis, strategy formulation and performance measurement.
Click here for details, see reviewer's comments, purchase book, and read the first chapter - it's free and available online. (30KB)