ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement):
Founded in 1962, the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) (www.ispi.org) is the leading international association dedicated to improving a company’s organizational performance. ISPI unites more than 10,000 professionals from all over the world. The ISPI’s mission is to develop mastery of its members and promote the Human Performance Technology (HPT) concept. The society realizes its mission by organizing annual world conferences, workshops, courses, publishing books and magazines, carrying out research.
Human Performance Technology (HTP) is a systemic approach towards performance and competence improving, characterized by the use of particular procedures and problem solving strategies. HTP is a process of selection, analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation of solutions which most effectively affect people’s behavior and their organizations’ business performance. HTP combines three basic processes: analysis of performance conditions, analysis of a cause and effect relationship in the tested system, and selection of solutions which can be applied to individuals, teams or whole organizations. For EC consultants HTP is one of the sources of know-how and methods of work with customers.