Are Your KPIs and OKRs Good, Poor or Ugly?
Are your KPIs and OKRs good, poor or ugly? How would you know? What criteria would you use to make your decision? If you answered, “they would be SMART”, that …
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Measurements’ Value Proposition
Part 2 of 2 Nothing creates clarity for leaders and teams like agreeing on how to measure something. So why do so many people do everything they can to avoid …
Measurement’s Value Proposition
Part 1 of 2 Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave”, said Eliyahu Goldratt, author of The Goal. So, you better make …
The Making of a Measurement Leader
There is something about performance measurement that makes many leaders (across all types of organizations) want to delegate the responsibility for measurement, seek quick fixes to their struggles, think dashboards …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP® #5: The Benefits of Building-in, not Bolting-on Performance Measurement
If you have read KPI Paradigm Shifts of PuMP #1, #2, #3, and #4, skip this intro and scroll down to today’s article. If you haven’t, here is the link …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP® #4: Team alignment to strategy comes from cause and effect thinking, not “mini-me” copy and paste.
If you have read KPI Paradigm Shifts of PuMP #1, #2, #3, skip this intro and scroll down to today’s article. If you haven’t, here is the link that introduces …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP® #3: Great measures come from evidence, not data.
If you have read KPI Paradigm Shifts of PuMP articles #1 and #2, skip this intro and scroll down to today’s article. If you haven’t, here is the link that …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP® #2: Use Measures to Monitor our Impact, Not our Activity
If you have read KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP #1, skip this intro and scroll down..If you haven’t, here is the link that introduces our 5-part blog series inspired by …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP® #1: Use Measures to improve and learn, not to judge and blame.
The KPI paradigm shifts of PuMP® series is about five of the many ways that Stacey Barr’s Performance Measurement framework (known as the PuMP Blueprint) helps us change our level-of-thinking …
KPI Paradigm Shift of PuMP®
The KPI paradigm shifts of PuMP® series is about five of the many ways that Stacey Barr’s Performance Measurement framework (known as the PuMP Blueprint) helps us change our level-of-thinking about …
3 Reasons Why Corporate Support Services Feel Out of Sync with Strategy – And How to Fix It!
Eventually any strategy formulation conversation leads to this question: How do we now align our internal resources and capabilities to achieve these longer-term results? These conversations can feel hard at …
How to fix leaders’ uncomfortable accountability between strategy and KPIs
By job title alone, leaders are inherently accountable to lead their organizations through strategy execution. But the term “accountability” is so overused in business and government it has become just …