| The ethnographic field project, A Model for Enhanced Corporate and Executive Performance, attempts to answer the difficult question of whether there is a model that can improve corporate performance and enhance executive success rate. This interpretive study results in a guide for executives to improve performance through the understanding of a framework of management thinking and the application of a model of excellence. The model of excellence is presented as a planned approach applied to managing an organization and its environments to achieve performance. Communications and information technology are central elements in applying the framework of management thinking and implementing the model. Performance is defined through quantitative measures while the insights on how performance was obtained is understood qualitatively. The study provides insights into the question of an executive's ability to increase performance by the application of the model in a specific culture even in changing times. The measure of success and degree of success is determined by the rate of change in a predetermined set of quantitative measures over the nineteen-month study period. The study includes the framework of management thinking and the model development including the performance measures defining success. The study was conducted at HVC, an engineering development and manufacturing company, whose name in this study has been changed for confidentiality purposes. |
