Most performance measures or KPIs tell you what happened. But if we're really going to manage company or organisational performance, we need to know something about what's going to happen. And that's what lead indicators do. They are a special breed of performance measure or KPI because they have predictive power.




Activities, Outputs and Outcomes! Oh My!

February 3, 2009 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment

As practitioners in the Land of Performance Measurement, we have our own version of Dorothy's 'Lions and tigers and bears' in the Land of Oz. We have activities, outputs and outcomes. Creatures that seem so much more frightening than they truly are, and mostly because we don't really understand whether and how we are supposed to measure them.



The typical approach executive teams use to cascade, or roll out or decompose or align, their strategic direction is:

  1. produce a clear set of goals, objectives, critical success factors or a scorecard
  2. then get each departmental or functional manager to take this onboard and customize it for their part of the organisation.
The trouble then begins… Read thi...


5 Stars -- Simply & lucidly: the basics of performance measurement

What I like most about this little book is the simplicity and lucidity with which it demonstrates what performance measurement is fundamentally about. Embedded within a fictional but entirely realistic story about one company's discovery of performance measurement, is a straightforward methodology for designing and...


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