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Just Because You Call it a Measure Doesn’t Mean it is One

You might have a KPIs, performance measures, metrics or indicators of success column...

Is OGSM a Good Approach to Performance Measures?

OGSM needs a clearer distinction between its component terms of Objectives, Goals, Strategies...

How to Move From Activity Measures to Outcome Measures

Activity measures are easier to identify and implement, but they aren’t good proxies...

The 5 Most Useful Business Questions to Direct Your Analytics

Analytics doesn’t magically produce insights from data like rabbits out of hats. To...

How to Match Your KPI Calculation and Reporting Cadence

KPI reporting cadence and calculation cadence need some kind of synchronisation, but just...

Quotas Are The Lowest Form of KPI Target

Quotas make us chase numbers as a substitute for fixing problems. That’s the...

How to Form the Ideal KPI or Measures Team

Follow these 7 tips for selecting people into your Measures Team, for a...

How to Select the Most Relevant and Feasible KPIs to Measure Your Goal

Too often we feel paralysed in our search for the right KPIs. The...

How Much Undiluted Truth Can You Bear From KPIs?

Evidence-Based Leaders have a certain spirit that other leaders do not. This spirit...

How to Implement a Corporate-Wide KPI Approach From the Top Down

Herman Hudepohl began leading the introduction and implementation of PuMP into the New...

Why Driving a Car is the Wrong Metaphor for Business Dashboards

Business dashboard design is based on the metaphor of driving a car: dials,...

How to Measure Change Management

If you leave your selection of change management metrics to chance, you leave...

The Best Way to Use Key Performance Questions for KPIs

Bernard Marr created the concept of “Key Performance Questions” to develop better Key...

How Good Performance Measurement Can Flatten Your Management Hierarchy

With the right approach to measurement, teams become self-organising, more aligned to strategy,...

Why Won’t Leaders Fix the Performance Measurement Problem?

If performance measurement is fundamentally important to business and organisational success, why do...

4 Reasons to Stop Looking For KPI Best Practices

If you wait to find KPI best practice in your industry, before improving...

Five Steps for How to Find The Right Measures or KPIs

How to find the right measures or KPIs is the most asked question...

Why KPI Thresholds Are a Really Bad Idea

KPI thresholds are not improvement tools; they make people react in a rush...

How Good Performance Measurement Creates Dialogue That Dignifies Everyone

When measurement is done to people, the wrong things change. But when measurement...

How Banks Should Change Their KPIs

Following recent investigation into the banking sector’s gross misconduct, the traditional KPIs driving...

How to Improve KPI Accuracy and Precision

Does your team spend more time debating the integrity of their KPIs than...

Why You Can’t Buy KPIs

Buying KPIs from online libraries or hiring experts to develop them might seem...

Which Parts of Your Strategic Plan Are Worth Measuring?

Trying to find the right strategic KPIs can feel like getting lost in...

The 10 Biggest Mistakes in Managing Organisational Performance

Before we can elevate organisational performance, we must stop making these 10 common...

Help People Value KPIs by Linking to What They Value

For our colleagues, leaders and entire organisations to value KPIs, measuring performance must...

How to Introduce Operational Teams to Setting and Using KPIs

Ayça Tümer Arıkan shares with us the detailed process she used to engage...

Make More Meaningful KPI Progress By Finding ‘Ish’

We’re not making good enough KPI progress, because we waste effort in our...

5 Analysis Methods That Make Us Misinterpret KPIs

Using the wrong analysis methods makes us misinterpret our KPI signals, and leads...

How to Forecast KPIs and Performance Measures

The greatest value of forecasting with KPIs is not predicting the future; it’s...

How to Define Your KPIs in a Corporate KPI Library

Use this Corporate KPI library template to define each of your KPIs, and...

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