Are you satisfied with your margins?
Is your organization's efficiency at its peak?

How do you measure performance?
Are you reaching your goals?

Does data drive your decision-making?
Is your performance aligned with your strategy?

Optimize Your Business to Meet Margin & Mission

The tech-savvy management consultants of Pittsburgh-based Performance Associates create and deliver improved business and financial outcomes organization-wide. PAI's consulting expertise in innovative business model redesign, complemented with best-in-class practices and automated cost-effective data analytics, drives improved and sustainable organizational performance over a wide array of industries.

Performance Associates helps you leverage your competitive advantage for the long-term. >

Our Cloud-Based Software Solutions

AnalyticsRx works seamlessly with your existing data infrastructure to create dashboards for real-time decision-making. >

Outcome Evaluator easily ties qualitative satisfaction surveys and other outcome metrics into AnalyticsRx dashboards. >

Performance Manager ties actual performance from AnalyticsRx KPIs into objective performance evaluations. >

Knowledge Center

Business Model Optimization

5 Building Blocks of Business Models

A business model consists of five building block elements that, taken together, create and deliver value. Successful business models require that these key elements work in consistent and complementary ways >

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Data Analytics

Design and Automate Effective Key Performance Indicators

Data Discovery is a process that provides intuitive and actionable information to the right people at the right time to make confident decisions >

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Data-Driven HR

Making the Business Case for Data-Driven HR: The People Analytics Revolution

With mounting pressures to link HR investments to business outcomes, the datafication of HR via people analytics has become a top priority >

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Capacity Building

Expedite Change and Improve Performance

Employees represent the largest organizational cost. Our activity analysis compiles organization time utilization into non-essential, essential and value-added classes >

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Process Reengineering

Understanding Value, Cost and Time

Hourglass filled with coins slowly falling

Why is an accurate understanding of cost-time important? Competitive position can be easily upset with dramatic shifts in the product cycle time (order through delivery through payment) >

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Profit Analyzer

See Where Real Profit Is Made in Real Time

Performance Associates’ Profit Analyzer™ is a customized management tool that gives you an ongoing, accurate picture of the costs and profitability of every area of your business in
real time >

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Consulting | MEET STEVE BLANEY

Award-Winning Management Consultant & Software Developer

As principal and co-founder of Performance Associates, Blaney helps companies achieve success in their markets by working better, faster and smarter. Unlike academicians offering untested theories, Blaney employs a unique blend of real-world experience and automated best practices to develop customized solutions that help each organization reach its full potential.

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Breakthrough Results

Traditional performance management systems are typically driven by personal or corporate values. Performance Manager is driven by the organization’s bottom line. That’s the difference.

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