Create sustainable value with performance improvement

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Costly and inflexible manual processes. Disjointed systems and data. Lack of skills and expertise to move beyond daily “firefighting.” Every business faces these challenges and seeks opportunities for improvement.

As a business leader, you want to wring out waste, optimize cost, and enhance working capital management. You aim to improve your organization’s ability to monitor and respond to complex dynamics. And you want to make measurable progress—and deliver lasting value—throughout the business.

When determining priorities, it is neither possible nor advisable to tackle every inefficient process at once. Instead, take a systematic, top-down approach starting with strategy. Evaluate costs, organizational structure, skills, technology, and processes. This holistic approach uncovers improvement opportunities and enables you to capture “quick wins” that can be reinvested into further initiatives.

That’s the science of performance improvement.

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Defining the value of change

Many leaders struggle to realize the anticipated value of their initiatives, increasingly turning to data to illuminate performance improvement opportunities.

To realize value, you need quality data to identify the potential benefits of your actions. When decisions are based on facts rather than assumptions, you can achieve intended outcomes more reliably.

One of the most common reasons performance improvement initiatives fail is due to a disconnect between vision and execution. Performance improvement must be integrated into your overall business strategy, becoming a continuous effort, not just a yearly or one-off event. Engineering a value realization roadmap is critical, and so is actively managing these initiatives:

Clearly articulating how the performance improvement program will create value.
Intentionally designing—and explaining—how initiatives will work together.
Consistently measuring key results and recalibrating based on actual performance.

Without this alignment, focus drifts, teams lose momentum. And what results is not just value lost—it’s value never captured.

At KPMG, we believe aligning strategy and operations with value is key to success. We partner with clients to incorporate performance improvement into their strategy, using a rigorous, data-centered approach to identify value creation opportunities across your business:

Uncover and eliminate costly technical debt that’s weighing down efficiency and stifling innovation.
Dive into supply chain and other operational data to enable more timely and effective decision-making.
Capture and study detailed financial metrics to fine-tune working capital management in every corner of your business.
Evaluate your customer-facing operations and identify opportunities to optimize what you offer, how you collaborate with partners, and how you sell to and service customers.
Implement targeted turnaround and restructuring strategies to stabilize struggling business units or regions.

Addressing these performance improvements allows you to reinvest savings into other high-value initiatives, creating a domino effect of value creation.

Organizing performance improvement efforts around value creation—from ideation through execution and beyond—helps alignment with strategic goals and focuses on delivering tangible, measurable results.

The KPMG Value Framework is an adaptable tool designed to accommodate varied organizational needs. Whether companies are looking to increase net operating profit, improve capital allocation—or both—we help design plans encompassing various strategic levers and transformation initiatives to drive measurable value.

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CEOs and strategy leaders face increasing pressures to preserve margins, drive growth, and deliver lasting value. To make that happen, many are turning to performance improvement initiatives.

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