PPI is committed to leveraging our industry acumen, operational expertise and formal research projects to help our clients improve performance. Outlined below is information that will help companies further their understanding of business improvement in various settings necessary to increasing corporate performance. Click on the titles to view the complete white papers.

Business Transformation: How to Achieve Practical & Achievable Increases in Productivity
Current thinking on how to significantly improve performance through effective business process improvement.

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
This summary addresses practical ways to develop an execution oriented culture, to embed behaviors and cultures necessary to turn ideas and plans into meaningful results.

Inside Selling to Get What You Want
How effective are you at persuading others to your side? Most people rely on simply "supporting their argument with facts" and are tactical in nature in building a case. Here are some great tips on how to be more strategic with your persuasion capabilities.

Insurance Industry Trends and Concerns
The insurance industry has always been adept at transforming risk into opportunity. In today's unsettled business climate there are many risks for insurers to manage, and with the need to drive out operational inefficiency a major concern, the risks associated with unnecessary operational costs and cumbersome processes are coming into new focus.

Make Offshore Outsourcing Work for You: Lessons & Approaches
Outsourcing is an obvious solution to many business needs - but is it the right solution for your business right now? This whitepaper reviews some of the situations where outsourcing of various kinds may or may not be appropriate, and some of the things you should consider when determining whether that's the approach that's best for your organization to follow.

Managing Current IT Issues
IT is critical to organizations today, but it can eat up precious resources and provide "solutions" that are poorly implemented and add to problems rather than helping. The success of IT solutions has little to do with technology itself. This white paper examines approaches to making IT an effective team player and unlocking the business value of IT investments.

Using Performance Metrics to Increase Accountability
You manage what you measure: thoughts on how to improve the linkage between business strategy and the metrics used manage business performance and guide decision-making.

Understand Your Way to Buy-In
Achieving agreement may come down to using coercive authority, but did you actually achieve buy-in? Obtaining commitment is crucial to many aspects of keeping up with today's dynamic business environment. Here are some insights into how to increase your ability to affect the behavior of others.

Valuing Your Efforts: ROI and Beyond
How can you demonstrate to your organization that the money spent on a project has been worth it? This whitepaper looks at some of the issues involved in determining the ROI of a training project, and at alternative ways to measure its real value to the organization.

The following list represents the cream of the crop in terms of relevant information specific to industry challenges.

• Electronic Banking Trims Hospital Costs
• Health Insurance Focus of Small-Business Concerns
• RFID and Barcodes: You Can (and Should) Use Both
• Use Trigger Events to Find the Ready Customer
• Reducing your dependence on Legacy IT systems
• How to avoid the pitfalls of Six Sigma
• Quantifying Drug Risks & Benefits: Can It Be Done?