To get the most value from the performance management frameworks we use, like OKRs and Balanced Scorecard, it helps to map them to the three stages of strategic performance management.

If you're not happy with the KPIs in your OKRs or Balanced Scorecard or other strategic plan, then you need to add in this one piece... (more…)

When we integrate a better performance measurement approach into the strategy processes we already have, we can make those processes work so much better, to truly achieve our strategic direction.

Improve performance by increasing fitness, not force, in producing the results you’re measuring and improving. (more…...

Performance improvement momentum can be hard to maintain. PuMP Contractor, Ayça Tümer Arıkan, shares a practical approach that blends PuMP with improvement cycles.

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

Performance measurement isn’t a post mortem, it’s a health plan. To make our organisations healthier, KPIs are useful only when they monitor the journey, through time, to better health. Not just the destination.

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

Balanced Scorecard Strategy Maps are popular but is a Strategy Map or Results Map better to map and communicate strategy? (more…)

Performance measures are mostly focused on improving performance in what we already do. But can this business-as-usual focus on existing performance measures sabotage necessary change?