Use this checklist of 31 tangible clues that your strategic plan might be one of the 90% that will fail in execution. (more…)

To make OKRs fulfil their promise to measure what matters, we need to solve 5 common problems in writing OKRs. (more…)

Government outcomes are particularly challenging to measure meaningfully, because they are intangible, long-term, and seldom directly impacted by a single department’s or agency’s actions. (more…)

OGSM needs a clearer distinction between its component terms of Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures, to avoid the usual problems of measuring strategy. (more…)

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...

Trying to find the right strategic KPIs can feel like getting lost in a maze, particularly if the strategic plan is not well-structured. (more…)

Quality is a vague concept, which makes it hard to measure directly. Here are 5 steps to more easily measure the quality of anything. (more…)

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) promise to help us measure what matters. But take a closer look, and you'll see they have little to do with performance measurement. (more…)

How we write our goals or objectives - or any result we want to monitor the achievement of - has a fundamental effect on how easy it will be to measure, how meaningful the measure will be, and ultimately how likely the right goal will be achieved.