Center for Inspired Performance: Our Unique Offer

We have moved our successful big business consulting practice to the mid-market where high growth companies live. We grew weary of trying to “boil the ocean” which is common to all large corporations. We decided to stop fighting bureaucracy and work with clients who shared our sense of urgency for getting things done. Our offer is equal to the large consulting firms with one significant difference, we have eliminated price point as a legitimate objection.

The Center’s two principles have over a half-century of delivering results to the Fortune 1000. Our extended team represents recognized thought leaders in the issues essential to growth: competitive advantage, market intelligence, product and service processes, and human capital.

Where do we look to achieve Optimum Growth for our clients:

Core Measures – Measuring to Manage
Leading Indicators – Predicting the Future
Real Time Indicators – Leading in Real Time
Trailing Indicators – Evaluating to Learn

Our team members at The Center for Inspired Performance all have long standing reputations for achieving results, helping clients reach the next level. Each member has years of industry experience within specific areas of practice:

Strategy and Optimum Growth
Product and Service Quality
Human Capital

Given the nature of the consulting business, the challenge of measurement presented us with two problems. Starting inside our company, how do we effectively measure performance in a labor-intensive business? Then transferring our attention to clients, how do we measure the impact of partnerships? In both cases, our added value was the application of knowledge. Since you cannot manage what is not measured, how do you measure the application of knowledge internally to become the lowest cost provider? How do you manage the application of knowledge externally to create a return on performance for clients? These concerns have occupied our best minds for years.

Our journey brought us to a simple understanding of the role of measurement in business and demands of management.

The application of business measures has three objectives:

Predict: based on a set of Leading Indicators
Describe: based on a set of Real-Time Indicators
Evaluate: based on a set of Trailing Indicators

The Center has collected an extensive list of best practices over our half-century of driving business results. Our organizational assessment SNAPSHOT measures the best practices in six critical strategic elements of growth.