Correspondence: Charles Caldwell, CEO NextQuarter LLC 63 Cable Road Rye, NH 03870, USA. Tel: 603 964 7115; Fax: 603 964 7128 Email: chas@nextquarter.com; www.nextquarter.com

¹is CEO of NextQuarter LLC and a business process reengineering, automation and asset management authority with 25+ years experience working with clients such as AT&T, EDS, Exxon/Mobil, Fiat, Ford, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Union Carbide, US Surgical and hundreds of solution providers and professional services firms. He specializes in benchmarking best demonstrated practices, designing semantic tools and developing interactive platforms to improve Cost/Performance. He is chief architect of NextQuarter's knowledgebase of econometrics, models, frameworks and methodologies used to assess applications, practices, cycle times/ROI and core competencies of thousands of corporations, solution providers and professional services firms to enhance value creation and Cost/Performance.

Abstract

Are you prepared to address transformational challenges that are impacting business today? Do you have fresh perspective about solutions and best practices? The world has changed. Business challenges are more complex. Events and situations that shift markets and demand happen quickly with little or no warning and create strategic opportunities for those who are prepared. Current approaches to problem solving often lack perspective on key issues confronting people, societies, government and business. Answers are often rooted in new ways of thinking that change perspective. Cost/Performance is a discipline (low cost — high performance) designed to improve agility and responsiveness while minimizing risk and exposure. Do you have an effective process for transforming business? Do you have discipline to achieve superior Cost/Performance? This paper introduces concepts, models, frameworks and roadmaps developed from years of intensive research. Insight and know-how presented focuses on changing thinking about talent, practices and capabilities. Consider possibilities created by rethinking investments when greater emphasis is focused on examining business fundamentals and interrelationships between industries, markets, employees, products, services, technologies, systems and states and conditions of practices.