1. The End of Performance Management
(as we know it)
Bjarte Bogsnes
Vice President - Performance Management Development
Chairman - Beyond Budgeting Roundtable Europe
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2. Outline
⢠The case for change - what is the problem?
⢠Beyond Budgeting - a solution
⢠The HR - Finance alliance
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3. 3
Statoil in brief
⢠Turnover approx. 130 bn. USD
⢠23000 employees
in 33 countries
⢠Worldâs largest operator in
waters deeper than 100 metres
⢠Second largest gas exporter to
Europe
⢠World leader of crude oil sales
⢠Listed in New York and Oslo
Russia
Arctic
Current production of oil and gas
US Gulf of Mexico
South America
West Africa
North Africa
Caspian
Middle East
North Sea & Norwegian Sea
Canada
East Africa
Aus/Indo.
6. Which is most efficient?
Which is most difficult?
In which are values most important?
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7. The world has changed -
what about the way we lead and manage?
Stable Dynamic
People
Business
environment
Traditional
management
âTheory Xâ âTheory Yâ
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8. We must change both processes and leadership
Stable Dynamic
âTheory Xâ âTheory Yâ Leadership
Processes
No traditional budgeting
Relative and directional goals
Dynamic planning, forecasting
and resource allocation
Holistic performance evaluation
Values based
Autonomy
Transparency
Internal motivation
Rigid, detailed and annual
Rules-based micromanagement
Centralised command and
control
Secrecy, sticks and carrots
Beyond Budgeting
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10. The 12 Beyond Budgeting principles
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Change in leadership
Governance & transparency
1. Values â Bind people to a common cause; not to a
central plan
2. Governance â Govern through shared values and
sound judgement; not detailed rules and regulations
3. Transparency - Make information open and
transparent; donât restrict and control it
Accountable teams
4. Teams - Organize around a seamless network of
accountable teams; not around centralized functions
5. Trust â Trust teams to regulate and improve their
performance; donât micro-manage them
6. Accountability â Base accountability on holistic
criteria and peer reviews; not on hierarchical
relationships
Change in processes
Goals & rewards
7. Goals â Set ambitious medium-term goals; not short-term
fixed targets
8. Rewards â Base rewards on relative performance;
not on meeting fixed targets
Planning & Controls
9. Planning - Make planning a continuous and inclusive
process; not a top-down annual event
10. Coordination - Coordinate interactions dynamically;
not through annual budgets and planning cycles
11. Resources - Make resources available as needed;
not through annual budget allocations
12. Controls - Base controls on fast, frequent feedback;
not on budget variances
11. Performance - a growing HR/ Finance
interface
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow?
Transactions
Administration
Business management
HR
FIN
Transactions
Administration
People & leadership
SHARED
SERVICES
People &
leadership
Performance
management
Performance
Management
Business
management
Transactions
Administration
Performance
-people, leadership
and business
Transactions
Administration
12. Questions or comments - now or later?
Bjarte Bogsnes
bjbo@statoil.com
+ 47 916 13 843
Twitter @bbogsnes
Beyond Budgeting Round Table
www.bbrt.org
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13. Want to hear more?
1. The problems with traditional management
2. The Beyond Budgeting model
3. The Borealis case
4. The Statoil case
5. Implementation advice
Out on Wiley (US)
Available from e.g. Amazon.co.uk
(Now available in Russian and Japanese)
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16. Ambition to Action - purpose and process
⢠Translating strategy - from ambitions to actions
⢠Securing flexibility - room to act and perform
⢠Activating values and leadership principles
Strategic
objectives KPIs Actions &
forecasts
Individual or
team
goals
Where are we going
â what does success
look like?
⢠Most important strategic
change areas
⢠Medium term horizon
How do we measure
progress?
⢠Indicative measure of
strategic delivery
⢠5-10 KPIs, shorter/
longer term targets
What is my or our
contribution?
My Performance Goals
â˘Delivery
â˘Behaviour
How do we get
there?
⢠Concrete actions and
expected outcome
(forecast)
⢠Clear deadlines and
accountabilities
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17. Ambition to Action example
Where are we
going?
âStrategic
objectivesâ How do we
measure
progress?
âKey
Performance
Indicatorsâ
How do
we get
there?
âActionsâ
People &
Organisation
HSE
Operations
Market
Finance
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18. More than 1400 âAmbition to Actionâsâ
across the company
âŚ..and more
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19. A broader performance language
- from narrow measurement to a holistic assessment
B e h a v i o u r
Deliv
ery
Living the values
⢠Day-to day-observations
⢠360°/ 180°/ 90° surveys
⢠People survey
Ambition to Action
Pressure testing KPI results: 50/50
⢠Deliver towards the strategic objectives?
⢠How ambitious KPI targets?
⢠Changed assumptions, with positive or
negative effect?
⢠Agreed actions implemented, or corrective
actions initiated as needed?
⢠Delivered results sustainable?
â˘Development plan
â˘Rewards
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20. Towards a simpler, more dynamic and
self-regulating Ambition to Action process
More cost conscious
- less ÂŤcost cuttingÂť
More event driven
- less calendar driven
More translation
- less cascading
More relative
- less absolute KPIs
More transparency
- less secrecy
Simple is n o t the same as easy!
21. Beyond Budgeting
- why itâs different and powerful
Recipe Idea Elements only The whole
Management
agenda
coverage
Granularity
Beyond
Budgeting
Many leadership theories
Complexity theory
Lean, Agile, Holocracy
Balanced Scorecard
Budgeting
TQM, ABC etcâŚ
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22. Potential for more consistency
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Team
Transparency
Dynamics
Individual
Secrecy
Annual
23. Potential for further integration
Our values, our leadership profile, the Ambition to Action process and People@Statoil are
key building blocks in our performance approacg
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24. The Statoil Performance Process (Draft)
Strategic objectives &
KPI targets
People & leadership
Actions
â˘Delivery
â˘Behaviour
â˘Development
Execution
Results
â˘Evaluation
â˘Learning
â˘Reward and recognition
Strategy
& ambitions
Values
What
How
Where are we going? How do we get there? How did we do?
Who we are How we work
Transparency - Team - Dynamics
2015-
10-29
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25. Implementation advice
⢠Create problem understanding before talking solutions
⢠Whatâs the real risk â upside vs downside
⢠Design to 80% and jump
⢠A âpull-basedâ approach
⢠âOne war but a thousand battlesâ
⢠Involve HR
⢠Donât become a fundamentalist
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Improve
Start of the Statoil journey
- solving a serious budget conflict
The budget purposes Separate
âSame number â
conflicting purposesâ âDifferent numbersâ
⢠Inspiring & motivating
⢠Relative where possible
⢠Holistic performance evaluation
⢠Unbiased - expected outcome
⢠Limited detail
⢠Dynamic - no annual allocation
⢠KPI targets, mandates, decision
gates & decision criteria
⢠Trend monitoring
Budget =
â˘Target
â˘Forecast
â˘Resource allocation
Step 1 Step 2
Target
What we want
to happen
Forecast
What we think
will happen
Resource
allocation
âEvent driven
- not calendar drivenâ
28. Budget
Not
OK
OK
OK?
OK?
OK?
OK?
OK?
The mindset requiredâŚ..
Is this really
necessary?
Do I have a
budget for this?
What is good enough?
How much value is this
creating?
Is this within my execution
framework?
â cost conscious from the first penny
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29. âŚ..and the tools available
Traditional
cost budget
Absolute KPIs If no KPIs found
Ambition level /
burn rate
Relative KPIs
Unit cost
input/output
Unit cost vs
peers
EBIT
RoACE
(abs/rel)
Strategic objectives
or actions only
Xx
Xx
Xx
Xx
Xx
Xx
Xx
Xx
1003,4 ~1000
âUSD/bblâ
âUSD/customerâ
âUSD/employeeâ
â1. quartileâ
âBetter than
averageâ
Increasing
autonomy
and flexibility
Bottom line
focus only
â A simplified and cost
conscious way of
workingâ
âMore video - less
travel â
Select based on what works best in your business
Monitoring of actual development, intervention if needed only
Increasing
need for
strong values
and clear
direction
Detailed and
annual
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30. Budget problems
Often weak link to strategy
Very time consuming
Decisions made too early and often too high up
Assumptions quickly outdated
Can prevent value adding activities
âAccordionâ forecasting horizon
Often a bad yardstick for evaluating performance
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Irritating itches - or symptoms of a bigger problem?
Editor's Notes
By studying major leading-edge companies that had âabandonedâ traditional budgeting, the BBRT was able to conclude that there is an alternative to traditional budgeting.
There is, however, not just one standardized management model or solution; every journey is different.
Accordingly, we promote a set of principles that lead to more dynamic processes and front-line accountability; they are our âcompassâ.
Organizations that follow this approach transform their management model. Members draw on the experience of others, but what they do and how they do it is up to them.
Ambition to Action translates our strategy into
Strategic objectives â where are we going and what does success look like?
Key Performance Indicators â how do we measure progress?
Actions â how do we get there?
Individual or team goals â what is my or our contribution?
Remember that KPIs are indicators only, they are not always able to tell the whole truth. That is why we have a holistic performance evaluation, where we look at much more than only measurement.
Ambition to Action can and should be changed when needed, driven by events more than by the calendar. Big changes require approval, small changes require information only.
We have over the last years tried to make Ambition to Action even more relevant and useful for business teams across Statoil.
The goal is an even simpler, self-regulating and efficient process This means.
A more cost conscious culture - and less traditional cost cutting
A more event driven and a less calendar driven rhythm
More translation and less cascading
More relative and less absolute KPIs
In short, we want to give Ambition to Action back to the line!
(Monica 10 min)
The IT solutions supporting these processes are in two separate tools. The solutions are based on internally tailor made platforms with limited user-friendliness that make people focus more on tool than the performance process
We want a responsible, cost conscious and commercial organisation, where people ask different and better questions before making cost decisions
A budget âceilingâ is effective in keeping cost down, but also in keeping them up. The ceiling is also a âfloorâ, because one might get less next year if under-spending .
There is some flexibility during the year in a budget, but normally upwards only. Many ask for more money when assumptions change, few if any does the oppositeâŚ..
A detailed cost budget is also comfortable for managers who dislike uncertainty and decision making, because most decisions are already made by someone above (what to do and how much it shall cost).
So dynamic resource allocation is not necessarily âeasierâ for managers, but we believe its is much better.
Such a different mind-set is necessary, but not sufficient. We also need a set of tools to help us. These are explained on the next slide.
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We have a number of alternative ways of managing other costs:
Manage against a total ambition level or âburn rateâ â(in the range of 1000)â. This solves some, but not all of the budget problems, because we donât always know up front if 1000 is exactly the right level.
This is solved by moving from absolute to relative KPIs; a unit cost target or comparing with others and set a âleague tableâ target.
If a unit has a profit target, this is an indirect way of managing cost . You can spend more if you earn even more (good cost)..
It is also possible to manage without costs KPIs, and address costs only through strategic objectives and/or actions.
Remember that we in a addition always monitor actual cost trends. If these reveal irresponsible spending, we have not abdicated the right to intervene . But we do this only when and where needed, and not for everybody like in a traditional budget.
Select from this âmenuâ based on type of business and the actual situation in each unit. The further to the right, the higher the need for strong value s and a clear strategic direction.