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Stacey Barr, the Performance Measure Specialist

Stacey is a freelance specialist in the field of organisational performance measurement.

While Stacey began her career as a research statistician, she certainly isn’t your typical statistician.  It’s not numbers she loves, it’s the fact that from the numbers people can discover and share information that guides them to make better, easier decisions and choices that help their businesses to improve.  Stacey’s gift is that she has a real understanding and empathy for how numbers such as performance measures will impact on the people that are going to use them.

Stacey teaches people how to get the kind of information that shows them how well their business is doing and how to make it do better…

There are many models around for performance measurement, such as the Balanced Scorecard, Performance Prism, OPM, Six Sigma Scorecard. But these are just conceptual frameworks, and they don’t really help you decide exactly what to measure or how to bring those performance measures to life.

Stacey has spent over ten years working in the field of organisational performance measurement. And has created a set of practical techniques to make measuring performance easier, and more likely to actually make decision making better…

Stacey’s work focuses specifically on reviewing, designing and putting into practice performance measurement processes that create useful and useable organisational performance information for tracking and improving business success - at all levels and in all areas. Her background includes:

• Bachelor of Science and Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistics.

• A career that began as a research statistician in the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and the Queensland Government Statistician’s office.

• A refocusing of her career, starting in Queensland Rail, to work more directly with people, helping them improve the quality of their decision making through better use of data and information.

• Becoming a freelance specialist in the field of organisational performance measurement.

• Currently undertaking a research based Qualifying Program that will enable her to start her PhD on the use of data in decision making.

PuMP® is Stacey’s flapship product, a methodology that’s helped many people in many diverse organisations to design and use the performance measures they really need.

What's unique about Stacey's approach to performance measurement is that it isn't just about the technical aspects to how to measure performance. A very big component of her approach is the human side of performance measurement, how people feel about measurement and performance, and the kind of change process they typically find themselves going through when involved in performance measurement. Some of the many organisations Stacey has brought this approach to are:

• BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance

• Brisbane City Council

• Business Support Services, Department of Emergency Services (Qld)

• Child Support Agency (Australia)

• Counter Disaster & Rescue Service, Department of Emergency Services (Qld)

• Endeavour Foundation

• Energex Ltd

• Gold Coast City Council

• Kangan Batman (TAFE Vic)

• Main Roads (Qld)

• Natural Resources, Mines & Energy (Qld)

• North Coast Institute of TAFE (NSW)

• Office of Fair Trading (Queensland)

• Open Learning Institute (TAFE Qld)

• Pine Rivers Shire Council

• Pioneer Electronics Australia Pty Ltd

• QBuild

• Queensland Ambulance Service, Department of Emergency Services (Qld)

• Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC)

• QR (Queensland Rail)

• Queensland Fire & Rescue Service, Department of Emergency Services (Qld)

• Redland Shire Council

• Strategic Policy and Executive Services, Department of Emergency Services (Qld)

• Wide Bay TAFE (Qld)

On a more personal note, Stacey is passionate about spending as much time as possible with her husband Scott and her two dogs Hinda and Chilli, spending free time in nature, bush running, hiking, astanga yoga, great conversation with friends and family, eating and cooking with chocolate and nurturing her native Australian garden, fruit trees and vegetable patch.

© Stacey Barr
last updated January 16, 2007

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