In NASCAR racing, you might be forgiven for thinking that a speedometer is a very important gauge for the driver. After all, racing is about speed, right? And speed should therefore be measured. But ironically, NASCAR drivers don't use a speedometer at all.

If you're problem isn't having too few performance measures, then most certainly it's having too many. We don't like to let go of our performance measures because we might just need them someday, and it took a lot of effort to get them in the first place. These aren't good reasons for keeping them, and doing so will cause us more harm than good.

Back in the 1990s process thinking was all the rage. Organisations world-wide were identifying their core business processes, mapping and flowcharting and doing Six Sigma and Lean and BPR to ramp up business performance. Was it just a fad?

Do you have KPIs or measures that are lurking lifelessly and in large numbers in your performance reports? No-one ever goes near them, and they refuse to die despite all the usual arguments to get rid of them. You have Zombie KPIs.

4 Stars -- Practical performance measurement wisdom from the trenches... Marty Klubeck's fresh and practical perspective on how to measure what matters fills a gap in the performance measurement literature. It's the most important gap to fill: the how-to and step-by-step details of how to decide what is important to measure, what the measures should be, and how to use those me...

If you don't take care in naming your performance measures, you end up with problems like different measures having the same name, the same measure having different names, and people getting confused about what the measure is about. That's messy. So don't take naming your measures too lightly.

With a new calendar year just around the corner, you might be thinking about New Year's Resolutions. These are goals just like any other: if you're serious about achieving them, you must measure them...

Staff Turnover might be easy and familiar to measure, but it is a very poor way to measure employee engagement. Here are five reasons why. (more…)

Not much has changed over the past 20 years, since the Balanced Scorecard threw a big spotlight on performance measurement. People still don't measure performance well enough, despite all the helpful frameworks that have come into being. Personally, I've noticed that people still have the same old struggles in measuring what matters. What should we really be aiming for in performance measuremen...

Surveys are one of the common methods we use in business to gather data. We have customer surveys, employee surveys, corporate image surveys, and surveys just about anytime we want to collect data from people. And often you'll see these surveys listed in the KPI column in the business plan. BIG MISTAKE! Here's why: