At its essence, becoming "performance-driven" is about motivating the entire work force -- including all employees, partners, suppliers, agents, and others inside and outside the organization; to work collectively to execute the strategy of the organization.

The aim of this practice is to effectively correlate corporate objectives with individuals' activities and tie employees 19 compensation to their achievement of specified targets which will be reflected in employees 19 appraisals.

senior management in SIO have taken the following actions to transform SIO into a performance-driven organization:

• Align the objectives and resources of the different parts of SIO
• "Cascade" objectives down into the work force and manage work force performance
• Reward individuals for performance
• Understand organizational and individual performance using real-time information
• Optimize strategy execution using models and analytics