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February, 2003
Volume 42 / Number 2

Table of Contents  |  Responses

This special issue of Performance Improvement (PI) journal, Clarifying HPT, is intended to encourage all ISPI members and friends to take stock of our evolved technology -- HPT -- and assist the Society in clarifying its various “technology domains.” 

This dialogue began with the re-publication of Geary Rummler’s 1983 article “Technology Domains and NSPI” in the July 2002 issue of PI.

After reading the articles, YOU are invited to participate in our Society-wide exchange of ideas regarding human performance technology. Please write your two-page treatise (no more than 1200 words), and submit it to Guy Wallace at guy.wallace@eppic.biz. Though we are interested in all your thoughts and ideas, we would appreciate receiving only one submission per author. Please respond to one or more of the following points:

  1. What is HPT’s value proposition?

  2. What does HPT include and not include?

  3. What’s wrong with and right with HPT today?

  4. If one were to master HPT, what would one be “skillful” at, versus “knowledgeable” about, or simply “aware” of?

  5. How can HPT co-exist with other improvement methods, techniques, and tools such as those that come from: Industrial Engineering (IE), total quality management (Statistical Process Control (SPC) and six sigma), Organization Development (OD), finance, etc.?

  6. How do we position ourselves and HPT with those other disciplines for true collaborations?

  7. What else can/should ISPI do to better communicate or market HPT and the value of HPT?

Your responses to this special issue can be found at the bottom of this page (click here).


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Table of Contents

Please Note:  The articles below are Adobe PDF files up to 230 kb's in size.  To access, please allow adequate time for these files to be downloaded to your computer.

Editor’s Notes 
by James A. Pershing

Readers’ Forum

Guest Editorial: Why This Special Issue?
by Roger Kaufman

Guest Editorial: What Is the Goal of This Issue?
by Guy W. Wallace

The HPT Value Proposition
by Dale Brethower

Performance Technology Landscape
by Roger M. Addison

Visibility Into the Work: TQM Work Process Analysis With HPT and ISD
by Charles A. Beagles and Steven L. Griffin

Measurement and HPT: Sharpening My Old Saw
by Carl Binder

Turning Research and Evaluation Into Results for ISPI
by Richard E. Clark

The HPT Razor
by Timm J. Esque

Certification: How It Can Add Value
by Judith Hale

HPT, ISD -- The Challenge of Clear Boundaries in an Evolving Discipline
by Peter R. Hybert

Value, Value, Where Is the Value
by Roger Kaufman

Graffiti and HPT
by Miki Lane

HPT Value Proposition
by Carol M. Panza

ISPI’s Value Proposition: Two Examples
by John Swinney

Performance Technology: Foundation for All Organizational Consulting?
by Donald Tosti and Stephanie Jackson

The HPT Value Proposition in the Larger Improvement Arena
by Guy W. Wallace

Resurrection
by Frank T. Wydra


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Responses

Response to the HPT Value Proposition
by Richard F. Gerson, PhD, CPT

HPT from a European Point of View
by Andreas Kuehn

ISPI’s Value Proposition Must Make HPT Known to
Every Manager on the Face of the Earth

by Kathleen S. Whiteside

It’s Time to Decide Who We Are and What We Do
by George W. Byars, CPT

Unleashing the Full Power of HPT
by Darlene Van Tiem, PhD, CPT, James L. Moseley, EdD, CPT, and Joan Dessinger, EdD, CPT

HPT is Not Simple
by Bobbie Allaire

Learning From Past Mistakes: Response to the 
“Clarifying HPT” Issue of Performance Improvement

by Dr. Susan Coleman, CPT and Dr. Marci Murawski

Shared Risk, Shared Reward-Profit Driving for HPT Consulting
by Rhett Brymer

Expanding our Vision of ISD in Performance Improvement
Organizational Perspective of Instructional Systems

by Conrad G. Bills, PhD

Some Remarks on the Discussion of the (H)PT Value Proposition
by Klaus D. Wittkuhn, CPT

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