Data: Only Fools Rush In
The 10 necessary steps to convert your raw data into KPI wisdom. Famous astronomer Clifford Stoll says” “Our networks are awash in data. A little of it is information. A …
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6 Questions to Help You Measure Anything
The need for measurement in our organizations has never been more important, yet most organizations do not have particularly useful or usable KPIs and reports. It is important to recognize …
Avoid the Dark Side of Measurement
Whenever something has power to do tremendous good, there always lurks the ability to use it for significant ill as well. This can be said of performance measurement. But the …
Measurement: what’s love got to do with it?
Many people think that if we improve statistics, visualizations, and data then the use of our organization’s measures will improve as well. If only it was that easy. Ramping up …
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 …
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 …