Contemporary trends in global competition, rapid technological developments and increased use of
management information systems and the Internet, developments in planning and control and management
thinking, and changing demographics are putting pressures on profit and nonprofit organizations. As a
consequence, companies are having more and more difficulty in achieving sustained performance. They
are forced to look for new management methods and to develop cutting-edge processes to deal with
existing trends and developments.
The paper focuses on describing how strategic performance management supports organizations in their
pursuit of better performance