Many of us struggle to get the support and buy-in to establish a proper and deliberate performance measurement methodology in our organisations. The timing just isn't right, or you just don't have a compelling enough case yet. One way to get started is to practice your own advice, personally.

One mistake organisations make in performance measurement is to not have a real KPI methodology. They treat measuring performance as an ad hoc activity or event. But when you do adopt a performance measurement methodology, another mistake is to do too ...

If your KPIs suck, even though you've long wished for better ones, it's likely that something is holding you back. That 'something' could be a very good reason, or it could simply be an excuse that you're mistaking for a reason.

With these 7 steps, we can make just enough time to measure and improve performance, and ultimately create more time for even better measurement and improvement. (mor...

Certainly one of the biggest objections to measuring performance is the amount of time and effort it takes to do it properly. Executives, managers and staff alike somehow believe that it should be fast and easy, a trivial task they can just 'get out of the way' and go back to their 'real work'. It's because they believe in the same BIG lie.

The following case study is an excerpt from my book, Practical Performance Measurement: Using the PuMP Blueprint for Fast, Easy and Engaging KPIs. It's about how a team in the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States used a simple performance measure to dra...

If you're stuck for what to start measuring, there is one category of performance that is important to every organisation or business in every sector, industry and country. It's waste, in all its forms. Which of the four categories matters most to you right now?

If we want to help people, like our colleagues and leaders, to understand why performance measurement needs to be done better, we need to engage them in the right kind of dialogue.

Following the performance measurement framework of PuMP®, this diagnostic tool will facilitate a discussion about how performance measurement currently stands in your organisation, and will broaden people's awareness of what good performance measurement is really all about. It contains clear instructions for how to facilitate the discussion, a rating scale to assess your current performance ...

5 Stars -- Simply & lucidly: the basics of performance measurement

What I like most about this little book is the simplicity and lucidity with which it demonstrates what performance measurement is fundamentally about. Embedded within a fictional but entirely realistic story about one company's discovery of performance measurement, is a straightforward methodology for designing and...