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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap Hardcover – April 11, 2003

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The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond Budgeting offers an alternative, coherent management model that overcomes the limitations of traditional budgeting. Focused around achieving sustained improvement relative to competitors, it provides a guiding framework for managing in the twenty-first century.

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"Beyond Budgeting is a must-read for anyone interested in seeing the future of performance management." -- Planning Perpectives, Issue #29, September 23, 2003

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"Beyond Budgeting distills the new management model for the Information Age. This is a book for leaders with the courage and insight to sweep away an enervating management dogma and release the latent wealth in their organizations."
Gregor Pillen, EMEA Head of Financial Management Solutions, IBM Business Consulting Services

"Hope and Fraser blast away the old budget approach in Beyond Budgeting. Their thorough analysis and synthesis of many successful business cases writes the blueprint for competitive success in the current turbulent hypercompetitive economic environment."
Michel J. Lebas, Professor of Management Accounting, H.E.C. School of Management, France

"Hope and Fraser brilliantly expose what lies at the heart of most failed attempts to foster corporate agility and innovation the fixed performance contract and the low trust mindset in which it is set. Beyond Budgeting is a true paradigm shift!"
Steve Morlidge, Unilever Bestfoods UK

"Beyond Budgeting has inspired UBS not only to shift its focus away from traditional, detailed budgets but also to take the next steps and implement plans with adequate levels of detail; and further redirect its focus toward trend analysis, scenario planning, and rolling forecasts."
Peter Thurneysen, UBS AG, Head Group Controlling & Accounting

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press (April 11, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1578518660
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1578518661
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.54 x 0.98 x 9.6 inches

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Must read for corporate managers

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2007

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It's time to review some standard practices in all corporations. Most haven't come out of industrial age views on how to manage and run organizations. Today's risk and opportunity environment needs some fresh thoughts and views on how to solve common problems and improve standard processes. This book takes a new approach on one of the most damaging and least critized processes - read it.

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Bas Vodde

No more budgets

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2010

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"Beyond Budgetting" describes a new way of managing your organization and its performance, a way without having budgets. Not having budgets does not mean chaos, it does not mean no control or visibility, it means using different organizational structures to manage the performance and resource distribution within your organization.

The book consists of four parts. The first part describes budgeting and the problems that are inherent to the budgeting process. It introduces an alternative based on what several companies have done, with the prime example being the Swedish Handelbanken. It splits the beyond budgeting concept it two adaptive process for managing performance and radical decentralization. These are covered in the next two parts.

The second and third part describe the two legs of beyond budgeting. The structure of the chapters is similar. The first chapter describes three cases of organizations that implemented these and similar concepts. The second chapter covers the principles while the last chapter in each part covers hints for implementation.

The adaptive process for managing performance suggests to set relative targets, decouple rewards from target setting, provide resources on request, and provide up to date and transparent information to everyone within the organization. Radical decentralization is build on top of this and recommends to empower people close to customers to make the decisions, work within teams and create an open and transparent information system that supports these people to make local decisions.

The last part of the book contains two chapters. The first one describes tools (and could have been left out from my perspective, didn't added much to the rest of the book). The second chapter described an overall vision for management in the 21th century and how Beyond Budgeting fits in that.

I liked the book, it challenges a whole lot of management assumptions and demonstrates an alternative not based on speculation but based on real cases. My only objection to the book was exactly that. Beyond budgeting is created based on what a couple of real companies do... but these companies all did slightly different things at different degrees. This variance makes the book sometimes hard to read as it makes it hard to fix the concept "beyond budgeting." Perhaps this was the authors intention... though from the readers perspective it would probably be easier to first describe the concepts and then move to case studies and show how different companies implemented the beyond budgeting concepts. Because of this, I considered a 3 star review... but as this book really provides a new concept, I feel that wouldn't be fair. So, four stars and a definitive recommendation for people who are tired of budgeting hell (aren't we all?) and like to know if there is an alternative. There is... it is called: Beyond budgeting!

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Not What I Expected

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2022

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I think I jumped the gun on this and purchased thinking it was going to be more in depth than it is. It is made up of mostly case studies and if your organization doesn’t align with the companies mentioned in the book, it’s kind of pointless. I did get a couple good highlighted quotes, but nothing I couldn’t have just found through Googling. Oh well!

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Malik

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2017

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I received my book on time and with great quality ! Keep it up !

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Willi

A Good start to change your company

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014

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I recommend this book to managers, directors, vps and C-Layer people.

It's about a new way of managing your business, based on descentralization, empowerment and self-organizaton. They give some good examples of places where it worked, a d an overview of what has to be done, what tools and techniques tonuse.

I believe in this approach, but I think more details are needed to maje things happen.

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Stephen Parry

Accepted ideas are no longer competent and competent ideas are not yet acceptable

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2009

This book and its associated Harvard Business Review articles (by Hope and Fraser) from 2003 has not attracted the attention it deserves.

When this was written it was seen as the antidote to the endless budgeting cycle based on the 'prediction' fallacy and the ensuing corporate gaming they create.

All of us have said at one time or another this process (budgeting negotiation etc.) is a joke, but we all continue to play our part in maintaining the joke, playing the game, fighting for survival in a world created by the madness of the corporate budgeting processes.

Hope and Fraser have clearly demonstrated that the current process is not only wasteful in terms of human effort but downright detrimental the the enterprise, employees and customers. They go further and show us all a way out of the trap.

There is an alternative, but it needs study and it needs more companies other than the ones illustrated in the book to lead the way. Only then can we change the current paradigm where 'Accepted ideas are no longer competent and competent ideas are not yet acceptable'

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David Parmenter

A Masterpiece from the Leading thinker for all corporate accountants

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2011

Jeremy Hope was the first person to finally put a nail in the coffin of the annual budgeting process through this masterpiece book, "beyond budgeting" which was written in conjunction with Robin Fraser. Every corporate accountant should read this book as it will help them in their journey of removing the annual planning process. The annual budgeting process is one of the top 20 mistakes corporate accountants have been making since 1497 when Picciola invented double entry book keeping.

Jeremy Hope is without any doubt the leading thinker in the world for all corporate accountants and his writings should be on the shelves of all progressive finance teams around the world. Please read also read Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value

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Desert Datsun

Very redundant book way too long

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013

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Could have been summarized in about 50 pages. Lengthy and redundant. This review would have been shorter but amazon required more words. Kind of like the publisher and this author.

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Antonio H

Más allá del presupuesto

Reviewed in Spain on August 22, 2019

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El concepto de Beyond Budgeting es de los mas interesantes y menos conocidos en España en el mundo de gestión de empresas. Este libro sirve para conocerlo, aunque no es el mas completo

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Daniel Nikolov

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2017

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The book was like a new, perfect condition. Very useful for my MA Thesis.

henriquattre

satisfait

Reviewed in France on December 23, 2012

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beyond budgeting book is one of the several books including strategy focus organization ,leader dilemma and competing in the third waves and possibly implementing beyond budgeting - this is the kit that forms the theoritical material around the topic.

With respect to the amazon service : full satisfaction

ohigo

星10個の価値あり　-　至急翻訳出版を！

Reviewed in Japan on July 6, 2003

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Jan Höglund

A strong case for decentralization

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2012

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This book makes a strong case for decentralization in business. One of the examples in the book is Svenska Handelsbanken (SHB) which moved beyond budgeting and the fixed performance trap thirty years ago! The change was initiated by SHB's CEO at the time Jan Wallander. I have subsequently found out that he has written several books. One is in english and is about "Decentralization - Why and How to Make it Work". Another is in swedish and has the title "Med den mänskliga naturen - inte mot!" (in english, With the Human Nature - not against!). This book is about how to organize and lead companies. I have put Jan Wallander on my reading list.

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