management team effectiveness

Streamwise uses Breakthrough Performance Index BPI™ in our management team effectiveness program.

The "Breakthrough Performance Index (BPI)" is a new tool that has been developed by Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Professor Sydney Finkelstein and tailored for the Australian market by ProNed.  It’s purpose is to identify critical patterns in the areas of leadership, strategy, and process within an organization - items that require consistent attention to sustain organisation performance.

BPI was developed based on 8 years of research that went in to the writing of the business best-seller Why Smart Executives Fail by Sydney Finkelstein and new research done since its publication.  The research identified 15 critical differentiators between organisations that remained successful in their industries over a long period of time and ones that were not able to remain successful.

The BPI is a diagnostic survey tool that a board of directors, senior management team, and/or one to two levels below the senior management team complete.  It consists of 75 questions that focus on the critical 15 leadership, strategy, and process differentiators.

BPI is administrated via a web interface and takes only 20-30 minutes to complete.  Results can be scored immediately and are compared to percentile norms based on a database of 150 organisations who have already completed the BPI.

Ways in which BPI can help:

• Helping senior management, board of directors, and organisational leaders identify "red flags" that require immediate attention
• Teambuilding with senior executive teams, by getting better alignment on key areas of leadership, strategy, and process
• Driving organisational change initiatives, building consensus and alignment
• Understanding and avoiding leadership, strategy, and cultural difficulties during periods of change, for example, integration of a newly acquired division or organisation

BPI™" provides you with a full-report summarising an intensive analysis of the degree to which your organisation has (1) SMART Leadership™, (2) SMART Strategy™, and (3) SMART Process™, leading to actionable recommendations for correcting areas of potential risk.

Once completed, the "BPI™" becomes an easily revisited process.  It is only through carefully monitoring the three pillars of success (leadership, strategy and process) on an ongoing basis that an organisation ensures it will continue to stay on top.  As many corporate mishaps make clear, a lack of attention to these important indicators can have undesirable consequences.

The lead consultant is Melinda Muth.