There are no professional guidelines (yet) which define what it means to be a Performance Measurement Leader - not like there are for Accountants, Project Managers, Finance Officers and Engineers. So there's little wonder that there are so many talented and capable performance measurement practitioners out there who are underselling themselves. Are you one of them? Find out with this quiz: ...
Do You Really Need A Corporate Performance Office?
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What is a Corporate Performance Office, will it really help you implement KPIs for strategic performance improvement, and do you really need one? (more…)
The 8 Steps to Build Buy-in to KPIs
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You're not truly implementing performance measurement - nor getting the gains it will deliver - if you don't have your staff, your colleagues and your managers engaged. Nor do you have to wait until they are engaged before you get started! Adapting John Kotter's process for leading change, which he details in his book "Leading Change", here are 8 steps you can follow, as the performance lead...
Three Types of Performance Measure Relationships
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What’s So Special About Lead Indicators?
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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.
Milestones Do Not Make Meaningful Performance Measures
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DOWNLOAD: Do your performance reports “stack up”?
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It's an emotional thing, performance reporting and dashboarding. Executives give up the precious little time they have for their families to instead paw through piles of strategic reports often more than an inch thick (or several drilldowns deep). Or they leave the pile of reports on their desk, or give their performance dashboard a quick glance, but then make decisions from their guts inst...
Three Ways to Toss Those Time-Wasting Measures
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We almost all do it: hang on to performance measures that we really don't need.
Believe me, measuring what doesn't matter does more harm than good! When you're measuring what doesn't matter, you're using up resources better spent analysing and improving, rather than reporting. And people's focus will be fractured by the sheer volume of data that's put in front of them.
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