Performance Management and the Balanced Scorecard
Your company’s performance management system is not just about annual reviews and bonuses, it is essential to implementing your corporate strategy. With many organizations currently tightening their...
View ArticlePerformance Measurement and Employee Engagement Stats from Harvard
Harvard Business Publishing recently posted the results of an employee survey to their Daily Stat blog, claiming that employees are more appreciative and enthusiastic about their jobs than a year ago....
View ArticleDialing-In on Performance Measurement Systems
In the July issue of Wired, the magazine offers views from the cockpits of the world’s most impressive machines. It’s a great photo gallery, putting you in what would be the driver’s seats of jets, a...
View ArticleStrategic Management Process: Seven Deadly Sins of Strategy Sabotage
A good strategic plan isn’t a golden ticket. We’ve seen organizations construct thorough, inspired plans that flop during execution. Big belly flops that make everyone sitting around the pool curse at...
View ArticleSleek, Flashy & Worthless: Demand More from Dashboards
When on a journey, getting from ‘here’ to ‘there’ requires orientation. In our work, we interact with many organizations that also want to become more data-centric to guide better decisions, better...
View ArticleUncovering A Horrible Strategic Plan
Clichés often have an original meaning that is powerful because the saying has been found to be deeply true. Yet, many times these sayings get diluted and misused so much that the words no longer have...
View ArticleDo Your Employees Trust Your Performance Management System?
Managers face this problem far too often: you want to mange your team to success, but when searching for a software solution to help you there’s usually a whole line of abandoned programs and tactics...
View ArticleExecution & Implementation – Six Sigma Style
A Google search for “Six Sigma” (in quotation marks) yields 73 pages of results showing the popularity of this methodology. In evaluating tools for strategy formulation, one must consider what has been...
View ArticleScoring Your Progress with a Scorecard
When the respondents to the 2007 Strategy Execution Benchmark survey were asked to select the most important business issue currently facing their organizations, an outstanding sixty-one (61) percent...
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