This book explores how to design and implement planning & control (P&C) systems that can help
organizations to manage their growth and restructuring processes in a sustainability
perspective. The book is not designed to enable the reader to become an experienced system
dynamics modeler rather it aims to develop the reader's capabilities to design and implement
performance management systems by using a system dynamics approach. More specifically the book
shows how to develop system dynamics models that can better support an understanding of:-What
is organizational performance and how to frame and measure it -How to identify and map the
processes underlying performance -How to design and implement a dynamic performance management
system and link it to strategic planning -How to tie strategic resource dynamics to processes
and performance indicators -How to link strategic resources and performance indicators to
responsibility and incentive systems.Using a dynamic performance management approach can
improve an organization's capability to understand and manage the forces driving performance
over time as well as set goals and objectives that may properly and selectively gauge results
and match them to the key responsibility areas in the planning process. The dynamic performance
management approaches covered in the book are beneficial to performance management analysts
enabling them to frame their professional field within the broader context of the system. The
book also includes numerous case studies and dynamic performance management models for
providing examples of how dynamic performance management works in practice. In addition a
literature review is included to provide a guideline for further improvements to those readers
who wish to develop relevant specific and detailed system dynamics modeling skills and to
establish the foundation for teaching system dynamics applied to performance management in
organizational and inter-organizational contexts. This is particularly relevant for graduate
students who have taken system dynamics courses and need to apply their own skills to business
and public management.
