Goals should be result-oriented, by definition. But we often see action-oriented goals in strategic plans. Why does this confusion happen? (more…)

Some goals are broad, and when we unravel them, there can actually be many goals wrapped up as one. Can we make broad goals measurable? (more…)

Different people in our organisations need different KPI knowledge, based on how they get involved in performance management. (more…)

Eli Goldratt is often quoted as saying "tell me how you will measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave." We know measurement affects behaviour, so what do we do about it? (more…)

When you have colleagues that confuse activity as evidence of success, try this 4-step approach to speak about better alignment of measures to outcomes. (more&hell...

Here are six indicators you can track, easily, to know how well your approach to performance measurement is working at generating the right KPIs. (more&hel...

If your organisation's leaders write the strategic direction, but delegate the strategic KPI design, the strategy won't be executable. (more…)

One of Drucker's famous quotes is that if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. We've taken this as gospel for so long. Should we still? (more…)

Performance measurement is about comparison. But if we need to be very careful to compare apples with apples, and not with oranges. What does this mean? (more…)

Despite the existence of government performance measurement audit processes, performance measurement in government isn't improving. This is why… (more…)