Driving Performance and Value
Jack Alexander and Associates, LLC provides benchmarking, consulting and executive training programs with a specific focus on building shareholder value by improving business performance.
About the founder
Jack Alexander is a former CFO turned consultant, author and business professor. He is the CEO of Jack Alexander and Associates LLC (formerly Value Advisory Group), a consulting and executive education firm with a focus on driving performance and shareholder value. He developed the Value-Performance Framework, which directly links key value drivers to operating processes and activities and provides for measuring and improving business results through the use of dashboards and analytics. These tools provide for increased visibility and improvements to profitability and cash flow. The framework also enables a progressive approach to business planning that provides a “Continuous Business Outlook” (an alternative to traditional budgeting and forecasting practices), scenario planning, performance assessment and goal setting. He has recently extended the framework to “Measure and Drive What’s Important” to focus on the importance of agility, innovation, execution and human capital in business performance and value creation.
Prior to founding the consulting practice, Jack held a number of senior financial and operational management positions at EG&G Inc.(renamed PerkinElmer), a global $2.5B technology and services Company with over 40 operating units. He served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and various other operating and financial positions. He also served as CFO for two other publicly traded companies and previously held positions at General Refractories Company and Coopers and Lybrand (now PWC). He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Financial Executives Institute. Jack holds an MBA from Rider University and a BS in Business Management from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Jack is also a Senior Lecturer at Babson College, where he has taught managerial finance and advanced finance electives in the MBA program, including valuation, strategic investments and M&A. He is presently active in the College’s School of Executive Education where he has developed and delivered courses in finance and performance management and analytics. Alexander is a frequent speaker on shareholder value and business performance management. He is the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation, published by Wiley in fall 2006.
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What distinguishes our approach to driving improved performance and value is the ability to link these value drivers to operating processes and activities within an organization and to implement improvement programs to move “the needle” on operating performance and value.
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| Performance Dashboards
Running a business is a lot like flying a complex aircraft. Managers need critical information about the performance of all aspects of their business on a timely basis, just as the pilot of a complex aircraft relies on his instrument panel. The key is to select and monitor measures that reflect critical strategic initiatives and value drivers so the firm can achieve its goal for long term value creation. When the use of effective dashboards is coupled with other tools to improve business performance, the results are impressive.
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