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Performance Engineering at Work is designed to address that void in management tool kits, demonstrating successful applications of its methods within businesses, industrial, and academic settings. Performance Engineering also suggest the role that performance engineering can play within the context of radical organizational change, such as reengineering and process redesign, as well as within the context of incremental organizational change. Performance Engineering illustrates the different ways performance engineering can benefit an organization and how its models and methods might be translated from theory into practice. This book is created for the manager committed to creating a work environment that supports exemplary performance, and it includes examples that are meant to stimulate thinking about how the techniques of performance engineering can work, techniques such Identifying performance problems to which performance engineering can be applied; Identifying the ultimate mission of the organization and determining whether the accomplishments of the organization and its people are aligned with the mission; Redefining accomplishments at all levels of the organization to support the mission of the organization; Establishing accomplishment standards based on the performance of exemplary employees.