A practical approach to measuring what matters and managing performance with clarity.
A key methodology that helps us make progress, performance, and value realization more visible throughout post-acquisition work.
PuMP is a structured methodology for designing performance measures, reporting routines, and management discipline around strategic objectives. BAREV represents PuMP in Spanish-speaking markets and Portugal, and uses it as a core methodology within post-acquisition transition, integration, and value creation work.
Within our approach, PuMP supports the definition of meaningful results, the selection of useful measures, and the development of clearer reporting and review routines around progress, risks, synergies, and value realization.
Organizations often already have goals, KPIs, and reports, but these do not always work together in a useful way. Goals may be difficult to translate into action. KPIs may track what is easy rather than what matters. Reports may describe activity without helping leaders improve results.
PuMP addresses this by turning strategy implementation into a structured performance discipline: clarity of intention, meaningful measures, targeted actions, clearer reporting, and better decisions.
How PuMP works
PuMP follows a structured process that helps organizations move from vague goals and disconnected KPIs to measurable results, clearer reporting, and better performance. It is practical, disciplined, and built to support coherent decision-making rather than fragmented reactions or measurement for its own sake.
1. Clarify the purpose
Define why performance needs to be measured and what those measures need to support.
2. Define the results
Express objectives clearly in terms of the results they are meant to achieve.
3. Design meaningful measures
Identify the evidence that will show whether those results are improving or not.
4. Build buy-in
Create shared understanding and support around the measures and their purpose.
5. Put the measures into practice
Define the data, methods, and routines needed to make the measures usable.
6. Interpret the signals
Read what the measures are actually saying so decisions can be grounded in evidence.
7. Report clearly
Present performance in a way that supports insight, discussion, and action.
8. Improve performance
Use what is learned to guide action, strengthen decisions, and improve results over time.
Why PuMP is different.
PuMP does not begin with KPIs for the sake of KPIs. It begins with the organization’s objectives, clearly expressed in terms of the results they are meant to achieve. This makes it possible to identify what evidence will show progress toward those objectives before measures and reports are designed.
The method is structured, but practical. It is designed to improve performance, not simply to produce numbers. That is what makes it useful both as a standalone performance discipline and as part of broader work where clarity, measurement, and evidence-based decision-making matter.
Where PuMP fits.
PuMP underpins the performance visibility, measurement, and reporting discipline within our post-acquisition work. It helps us define what success should look like, identify what needs to be measured, and create clearer reporting and review routines around progress, risks, synergies, and value realization.
Its role is especially important in the Perform stage, where leaders need meaningful measures, stronger management rhythm, and better decision support to understand whether the acquisition is delivering the value it was meant to create. Its principles also strengthen the Transition and Integrate stages by helping make priorities, early signals, and progress more visible from the start.
We are a licensed PuMP affiliate.
BAREV is a licensed PuMP affiliate for Spanish-speaking markets and Portugal. That allows us to support organizations that want to apply PuMP directly, and to bring its principles into broader consulting work where performance clarity and evidence-based decision-making matter.
Ready to bring more clarity to performance, progress, and value realization?
A first conversation can help clarify where your current approach is working, where visibility is missing, and how stronger measurement and reporting can support post-acquisition integration and value creation in practice.
It is not a course or a sales presentation. It is a focused discussion around your own goals, measures, reporting challenges, and post-acquisition priorities — and whether PuMP is the right fit within that work. This mirrors the Discovery Discussion approach: one real conversation, practical value, and no obligation.
One conversation. One real challenge. A clearer next step.