The Organisational Capability Too Few Organisations Manage Deliberately
Why even successful organisations may be overlooking opportunities for greater enterprise value
13 min read
Defining Enterprise Performance
Enterprise Performance is an organisation’s continuing ability to create value in fulfilment of its purpose by understanding and deliberately improving the lived system through which performance is produced.
Six essays on enterprise performance
Foundational Essay Series
Making Enterprise Performance Visible and Improvable
Some of the greatest opportunities for improvement may lie in conditions the organisation has already learned to live with
4 min read
Connecting Strategy and the System of Work
Evolving the system to deliver tomorrow’s performance
5 min read
The Operating Model’s Contribution to Enterprise Performance
Looking beyond periodic redesign to recognise how operating arrangements shape performance
4 min read
Improving Performance Is Not the Same as Building the Ability to Improve
Why the knowledge created through performance improvement should outlast the people who create it
7 min read
Making Enterprise Performance an Enduring Organisational Capability
From deliberate enterprise-level stewardship comes an organisation increasingly capable of improving itself
9 min read
Blueprint
A practical organisational response
WHITEPAPER · OCTOBER 2026
The Performance System Operating Model
A Practical Blueprint for Building Enterprise Performance Capability
The paper offers one possible organisational response to the ideas explored in the Valde essays: a practical starting point for leaders considering how enterprise performance capability might be established, organised and sustained. It is a design proposition for consideration and adaptation.
About Valde
Valde Enterprise Performance helps organisations develop the enduring capability to understand and deliberately improve how enterprise value is created.
Valde was founded by Melanie Lisboa, whose experience spans enterprise transformation, operating model design and performance improvement across retail, healthcare and financial services. Her work has included leadership and advisory roles with organisations including Walmart, Woolworths, Ramsay Health Care and Commonwealth Bank.
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