Why Driving a Car is the Wrong Metaphor for Business Dashboards
April 16, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentBusiness 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).
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Performance Reporting and Dashboards
Setting Sensible Targets For Your KPIs
November 7, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentKPI target setting is both science and art. Science, in that it has proven and logical steps. Art, in that it needs your own creative input too. (more…)
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Get Buy-in for KPI Targets
February 7, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentSetting and achieving performance targets for KPIs is about the heart just as essentially as it is about the head. (more…)
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Are Your Goals Measure-Worthy If They Are SMART?
April 4, 2023 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentDespite frameworks about what makes a goal worth measuring, like SMART, many of our goals are still not meaningfully measurable. Try these 5 questions instead... (more…)
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4 Ways to Measure and Monitor Progress
November 1, 2016 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentFiled Under: Improving Performance, Performance Measure Frameworks
5 Conversation Starters to Reframe Measurement’s Relationship to Change
May 17, 2022 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentIf your colleagues don't yet see how performance measurement supports change, try these 5 triggers to reframe the relationship. (more&hellip...
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How to Measure Design Success in a Meaningful Way
May 8, 2018 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentDesign is a creative process; it's about making something new or different that hasn't already been made. So, can we really measure design success in any meaningful way? (more…)
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Why Does Every Public, For-Profit and Non-Profit Organisation Need KPIs?
September 20, 2022 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentIf you only have rudimentary knowledge of KPIs and performance measurement, can you still lead a successful organisation? (more…...
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Be Ruthless About What to Measure
November 17, 2015 by Stacey Barr | Leave a CommentManagement guru Peter Drucker is quoted over and again for his message that the key to strategy is omission. Good strategy is ruthlessly about what not to do, than it is about what to do. The same goes for KPIs. We must be ruthless about what to measure.
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Making Strategy Measurable