The Performance Economy
The Performance Economy outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs, and increase income. It shows what skills will be required to produce, sell and manage performance over time, and how manual jobs can contribute to reducing the consumption of non-renewable resources. This book is essential reading for all interested in development economics, and industrial and business economics.
Packed with case studies, new examples, and decades of proven research.
Additional topics include:
- A description of the skills needed to produce and sell performance
- Details of how performance is managed over time
- Clear explanations that illustrate how manual and skilled jobs are created
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Producing Performance
1.1 Why the shift to Producing Performance?
1.2 Producing performance: How it works!
1.3 Systems solutions through radical changes in framework conditions
1.4 Change drivers
1.5 How to overcome obstacles
1.6 How to measure it!
Chapter 2. Selling Performance
2.1 Why the shift to selling performance in the Functional Service Economy?
2.2 Selling Performance in the Functional Service Economy: How it works!
2.3 The structure of the economy selling performance
2.4 Markets and economic actors selling performance
2.5 Change drivers
2.6 How to overcome obstacles
2.7 How to measure it!
Chapter 3. Managing Performance Over Time
3.2 Maintaining performance over time: How to Lake and Loop Economy work
3.3 The Lake Economy - Optimising the management of physical assets
3.4 The Loop Economy - The art of reuse, remanufacturing and remarketing
3.5 Change drivers
3.6 How to overcome obstacles
3.7 How to measure it!
Chapter 4. Sustainability and the Performance Economy
4.1 In praise of chaotic self-regulating systems
4.2 The concept of sustainability
4.3 The relevance of the Performance Economy to emerging economies
4.4 The relevance of the Performance Economy to industrialised countries
4.5 What are the drivers of change?
4.6 The link between performance, culture and sustainability