Business dashboard design is based on the metaphor of driving a car: dials, gauges, traffic lights, rear-view mirrors. But there is a huge fault with this metaphor that is driving business performance in reverse (pardon the pun).

If you leave your selection of change management metrics to chance, you leave the success of your change initiative to chance as well. So don't resort to shopping lists of change metrics - here's how to design the measures you really need.

Bernard Marr created the concept of "Key Performance Questions" to develop better Key Performance Indicators. But ask the wrong KPQ and you'll get the wrong KPIs. (more&helli...

With the right approach to measurement, teams become self-organising, more aligned to strategy, and accountable for results. Who needs managers?

If performance measurement is fundamentally important to business and organisational success, why do so many leaders get it wrong, and so few are willing to fix it?

If you wait to find KPI best practice in your industry, before improving your performance measures, you're going to wait too long. (more…)

How to find the right measures or KPIs is the most asked question in the field of performance measurement. And it’s little wonder, because the more meaningful measures track outcomes which tend to be less tangible than the traditional things we’ve measured, like how many widgets we produced.

KPI thresholds are not improvement tools; they make people react in a rush to quick fixes and gaming that end up making performance worse. (more…)

When measurement is done to people, the wrong things change. But when measurement is done through dialogue, it dignifies everyone, and the right things change.

Following recent investigation into the banking sector's gross misconduct, the traditional KPIs driving their poor behaviour must change. (more…)