Best Practices: How to Design Performance Indicators for Maximum Benefit

Without guidance, it is very easy for your first steps in performance management to involve looking over someone else’s library of 1001 indicators & metrics and picking a couple dozen that look good at the time. But that approach is likely to require too much data collection effort and fail to produce the kinds of successes your business needs. Here are my top 5 Tips for ensuring that your performance indicators focus your business on achieving its own goals and identifying watershed moments. Continue reading

Watershed Moments: How Managing Strategy Execution Improves Business Performance

The next time a situation arises that dramatically alters your business environment, will you notice it? How quickly? Watershed moments in history have shaped our world and our view of it. The impact these changes have on our lives can seem to be a matter of chance. But in business, they are as much a matter of leadership. Continue reading

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Best Practices: How to Design Performance Indicators for Maximum Benefit

Best Practices: How to Design Performance Indicators for Maximum Benefit

July 6, 2010 in Articles

Without guidance, it is very easy for your first steps in performance management to involve looking over someone else’s library of 1001 indicators & metrics and picking a couple dozen that look good at the time. But that approach is likely to require too much data collection effort and fail to produce the kinds of successes your business needs. Here are my top 5 Tips for ensuring that your performance indicators focus your business on achieving its own goals and identifying watershed moments. Continue reading

Watershed Moments: How Managing Strategy Execution Improves Business Performance

Watershed Moments: How Managing Strategy Execution Improves Business Performance

March 14, 2010 in Articles

The next time a situation arises that dramatically alters your business environment, will you notice it? How quickly? Watershed moments in history have shaped our world and our view of it. The impact these changes have on our lives can seem to be a matter of chance. But in business, they are as much a matter of leadership. Continue reading