André de Waal is Academic Director of the HPO Center, an organization which conducts research into “high performance organizations.†In addition, André is Associate Professor High Performance Organizations at the Maastricht School of Management. His teaching assignment is the course ...
André de Waal is Academic Director of the HPO Center, an organization which conducts research into “high performance organizations.†In addition, André is Associate Professor High Performance Organizations at the Maastricht School of Management. His teaching assignment is the course Strategic Performance Management and High Performance Organizations. André is also Academic Director of the HPO Center, an organization which conducts research into high performance organizations. He is guest lecturer at the Free University Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, and visiting fellow at Cranfield University, United Kingdom. André holds a MSc in Chemistry from Leiden University (the Netherlands), a MBA from Northeastern University Boston (USA) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has been a partner with Arthur Andersen and Holland Consulting Group for 17 years.As an independent boardroom advisor and researcher, he has advised over 200 global companies on performance management and high performance issues. His consultations with his client companies and professional management associations span five continents with touch points in the USA, UK, Sweden, The Netherlands, Poland, Peru, Ecuador, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal, Surinam, Saudi-Arabia, Yemen, South-Africa, Namibia, Rwanda and Tanzania.André has been selected as one of the Dutch Masters in Management, ten people who have influenced management thinking in The Netherlands the most in the past decade. In 2009 and 2012 André received the Highly Commended Award from the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.
“Many, many thanks for what you did for us. I am always deeply impressed by someone who throws themselves fully into the job in hand, which you did spectacularly. Your energy and enthusiasm certainly rubbed off on people. Thanks for making it a truly memorable and special day.”
“The HPO Framework of André de Waal, described in this well-written book, is based on solid scientific and practical research and its working has been tested at actual organizations. This makes De Waal's framework the first one to actually help managers improve in a sustainable manner.”
"The HPO methodology provided a perfect means of benchmarking where we were, telling us what good looked like, the things that we really needed to focus on, a target to aim for and the means to measure our progress – excellent."
“The infamous American actress Mae West once said: “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.” Finally, a book that goes beyond “promises” but gives greater clarity about the essential contributing factors of high performance organizations. This pioneering work of Dr. de Waal is a must read for people interested in this subject.”
“Culture is very important at HPOs and the HPO research by André de Waal provides us with a tool for thinking in terms of the long run.”