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Harnessing Organizational Performance Homepage
At the direction of the County Administrator, OFMB is leading an agency-wide redesign of the county performance measurement program. The redesign initiative, named "Harnessing Organizational Performance" or HOP for short, is a 3-phased, multi-year project spearheaded by OFMB's Management & Program Analysis Section, with the assistance of the Budget Division, working cooperatively with departmental staffs throughout the county government.

 

How HOP Is Carried Out
The HOP program has been painstakingly developed over many months to achieve ease of understanding, consistency for replication across departmental lines, thoroughness, state of the science thinking concerning performance measurement, and the application of targeted business perspectives to the work of the county.
   HOP is not a crash program with a "hurry-up" timetable; there's a reason they call that sort of thing a "crash" program. Rather, it is a deliberate and methodical approach to helping departments update their individual performance programs to reflect their own priorities and critical missions. Designed to be implemented in three logical, attainable steps, HOP is a dynamic tool that departmental staff throughout the county will be trained on. Click on the links below to learn more about the 3 phases of the HOP program.

»  Phase I  
»  Phase II
»  Phase III
HOP phase 1 Departments
Since the HOP program began on a pilot basis in the summer of 2003, departments that have so far been through the structured 7-week evaluation  that constitutes Phase 1 are listed in the following link.
»  Listing of HOP phase 1 Departments
»  Download Dept HOP phase 1 Reports

For more information on the program, and to discuss a specific department's participation, contact Wil Brown, Senior Management & Operations Consultant, at 561-355-2029.

 

HOP phase 2 Departments
Starting in mid 2005 departments have begun utilizing the evaluation findings of phase 1 to redesign their performance measurement programs. The phase 2 Building Blocks of High Performance guides departments through the redesign process that emphasizes clarity, usability, meaningfulness, input from a variety of business perspectives and coordination with a departmental strategic plan.

As departments progress through the HOP phas2: Building Blocks of High Performance, the Racing to Performance Redesign table (below) is updated. In addition, progressing through the building blocks directly impacts the redesign results gauges - see the Gauging Performance Program Redesign! For more information on the program, and to discuss a specific department's participation in the HOP phase 2: Building Blocks of High Performance, contact  Wil Brown, Senior Management & Operations Consultant, at 561-355-2029.

 

What's HOP All About?

»  Download HOP Slide Show
»  Download Phase 1 HOP Reports
»  List of Phase 1 Departments

 
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Gauging Performance Program Redesign
The redesign of the Palm Beach County performance measurement program through Harnessing Organizational Performance is gauged below. The gauges are impacted as county departments complete HOP phase 2: the Building Blocks of High Performance.

  The gauges indicate the progress of the organization in each of the following ways:

a) adopting more meaningful performance measures,

[Gauges Updated August 15, 2005]

b) ensuring performance input from different but equally valuable perspectives, and

[Gauges Updated August 15, 2005]

c) verifying the implementation of redesigned performance programs. The gauges represent the Palm Beach County organization as a whole.
[Gauges Updated August 15, 2005]
Racing to Performance Redesign
Progress to complete the Building Blocks of High Performance is documented in the race chart below. Completion of each building block includes a self-checklist, then a verification for accuracy and compliance to "performance race guidelines."

HOP Progress By Quarter

   
 HOP Phase 2 Departments

Building Block 1
Links, Types, and Business Perspectives

Building Block 2
Meaningfulness Defined,
Building Block 3
Strategic Planning
 County Standard
 Community Services        
 Co-Operative Extension        
 Engineering        
 Environmental Resources        
 Facilities        
 Fire Rescue        
 Internal Audit        
 ISS        
 Library        
 Medical Examiner        
 Office of Small Business        
 Palm Tran        
 Parks and Recreation        
 PZB        
 Purchasing        
 Water Utilities        
         
 

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