A Practical Approach to Bring Improvement Projects to Life With PuMP
February 9, 2021 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Performance improvement momentum can be hard to maintain. PuMP Contractor, Ayça Tümer Arıkan, shares a practical approach that blends PuMP with improvement cycles.
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Improving Performance, Strategy Execution
31 Clues Your Strategic Plan’s Measurement and Execution Will Fail
December 3, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Use this checklist of 31 tangible clues that your strategic plan might be one of the 90% that will fail in execution. (more…)
If You’re Not Measuring Through Time, You’re Not Measuring Performance
October 1, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
How Good Performance Measurement Can Flatten Your Management Hierarchy
March 26, 2019 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Strategy Map or Results Map – Which is Better?
July 26, 2018 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Balanced Scorecard Strategy Maps are popular but is a Strategy Map or Results Map better to map and communicate strategy? (more…)
When Do Existing Performance Measures Sabotage Necessary Change?
April 24, 2018 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
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?
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Aligning, Cascading & Linking, Strategy Execution, Using Measures
How Do You Measure The Impact Of An Initiative?
September 5, 2017 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Let's get right to the point: if you have to ask how to measure the impact of an initiative, it means you got things back to front. (more…)
Filed Under: Making Strategy Measurable, Strategy Execution
Are Your Strategic Initiatives High-Leverage or Ordinary?
July 4, 2017 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
A high-leverage strategic change initiative promises so much more than an ordinary one. But what exactly defines high-leverage? (more…)
Filed Under: Evidence-Based Leadership, Improving Performance, Strategy Execution
The 5 Qualities of Excellent Corporate KPIs
March 28, 2017 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
Most organisations have lame corporate KPIs. They don't align to strategy, give evidence of impact, or offer actionable feedback. If they can't do these things, they can't really be called corporate KPIs!
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Cascading Strategy, Making Strategy Measurable, Strategy Execution
The 5 Stages to Start Evidence-Based Leadership
February 28, 2017 by Stacey Barr | Leave a Comment
The implementation of evidence-based leadership is iterative. It's too profound a shift to happen in one go. And it will never happen if we wait to thoroughly research our current state, detail a change management plan, save enough budget to resource it all, and delay until the time is just right and the planets have lined up.
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Evidence-Based Leadership, Strategy Execution
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