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Why COVID-19 Needs Proper Performance Measurement
Written by Trevor Hobbs, Assistant to the Town Administrator, for a municipality in...
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Dealing With the KPI Terminology Problem
To arrive at a universally accepted terminology for performance measurement, like ‘KPI’, we...
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How to Deploy a Corporate-Wide Performance Measurement System
To deploy a successful Corporate Performance Measurement System, follow this project plan outline...
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5 Shortcuts to Smarter KPIs
If you want performance measures, metrics or KPIs that are smarter than the...
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10 Questions to Prevent KPI Unintended Consequences
When we measure, there are consequences. Ask these questions so you can prevent...
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How One Chart Can Trigger a New Performance Culture
When teams see how their actions can make a difference to even a...
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5 Situations When Shifting KPI Goalposts Is Okay
When KPI targets are continually missed, when can they be reassessed without being...
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How to Use KPIs to Improve Financial Performance
We can improve financial KPI performance, like cash flow, revenue, costs, and profit,...
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How to Measure Improvement When Things Keep Changing
There are three keys to measure and improve performance, when what you’re trying...
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Three Types of Powerful Process Measures
To align teams to your organisation’s strategic direction and purpose, they each need...
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Should You Measure Performance When You’re Under-Resourced?
Or perhaps a better question is, what should you measure to fix the...
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3 Steps to Triage BAU Measures For Action
Business-as-usual (BAU) measures are not priorities for improvement like strategic performance measures are....
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The Behaviours We Need Metrics to Drive for Crisis Management
In crisis management, we need to use metrics to drive the behaviours that...
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Seven Comebacks to “That’s not measurable!”
Admit it – you’ve either heard or uttered these words when faced with...
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3 Iterations to Roll Out KPIs Organisation-Wide
Rolling out an organisation-wide KPI approach in one fell swoop won’t stick. It...
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How to Find the Right KPIs to Pivot Performance Through a Crisis
Here is a framework for how to measure through any crisis, to help...
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7 Ways You’re Making Performance Measurement Too Hard
Are you doing any of these unnecessary things with KPIs, and it’s making...
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Does Improving Data Accuracy Make Historic KPI Values Useless?
Improving data accuracy doesn’t mean your historic KPI values are useless. Just don’t...
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Why Leaders Shoot Down Your KPI Recommendations
If you don’t want leaders to shoot down your new approach to develop...
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How to Implement KPIs 100% Virtually
To get rich interaction, high productivity and deep engagement in implementing KPIs virtually,...
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3 Benefits Of Slowing Down When Developing Your KPIs
One of the main reasons that our performance measurement practice fails to produce...
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When KPI Data is Too Costly, Use Sampling
Sampling the data for your KPI not only takes less time, energy and...
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PuMP Measures More Than Just Strategy
Many measurement tools focus on developing KPIs to monitor strategic goals. Does this...
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How to Set New Strategic Goals to Survive COVID-19
Last year’s strategic direction is irrelevant now. Our organisations need new goals to...
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Why Measuring Performance Matters More In Hard Times
We normally cut back on measuring performance in hard times, because it seems...
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An Insight from the COVID-19 Metric – Growth Factor
The COVID-19 Growth Factor metric is an insightful model for measuring results that...
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Which Level of KPI Consciousness Does Your Leadership Have?
We need the leadership team to support better measurement, but how we garner...
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Are Objective Performance Measures Possible?
Here are six guidelines to remove most of the subjectivity from any KPI...
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5 Powerful Questions to Make Intangible Goals Measurable
Language is the key to make intangible goals or objectives measurable. These 5...
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