Santa Claus is one amazing character. To avoid disappointing any of the estimated 380 odd million Christian children in the world on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus needs to be capable of some pretty spectacular performances:

5 Stars -- Simple, illuminating, and worth the 60 minutes (or less) to read! In as simple and few words as necessary, Dr Bob Frost has articulated some important essentials of performance measurement. Firstly, that you most definitely need to think about measuring organisational performance holistically, crafting and using measures that help tell the story of the organisatio...

Author of "Key Performance Indicators"

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You already know that I specialise in the nitty-gritty steps of the performance measurement process (like how to design meaningful measures), but having the measurement techniques is just one part of a successful performance measurement implementation. You also need to understand that setting up a performance measurem...

STACEY: Doug Hubbard, of Hubbard Decision Research, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of IT value, with over 18 years experience in IT management consulting including 10 years experience specifically in teaching organizations to use his AIE (Applied Information Economics) method. But today I'm talking to him about the challenge of getting practical measures w...

Author of "How to Measure Anything".

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It was fantastic to interview Doug Hubbard about the topic of his newly released book "How to Measure Anything"!

Winning awards, completing projects and initiatives on time, meeting budget, counting widgets, annual surveys, and whatever we can find at the back of the ‘performance measure pantry’ that was left over from last year – they are all ugly measures! But how can you find meaningful measures and KPIs, without going around in circles, or wasting more time? If you’re stuck with this sort of thi...

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...

When Alex Osborn invented the creativity technique called brainstorming, I wonder if he had any idea just how extensively business would apply it. Almost every meeting employs some kind of brainstorming event, but there’s one meeting that really should leave it off the agenda: the performance measure or KPI selection meeting. Read this article and get tips for how to

If people don’t share a single, sharply focused, easily imaginable vision of a result they want to create, any effort to measure that result will waste time. And if you do successfully get some measures established, it’s likely they just won’t stimulate the excitement and motivation needed to make the result happen. Read this article and get tips for