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Want Great KPIs? You Have to Get Sensory…

31 January, 2023 Making Strategy Measurable, Meaningful Performance Measures

The building blocks of KPIs and performance measures is detectable evidence. And evidence is detectable when it is sensory. We can only measure what we can observe or detect. If...

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The Balanced Scorecard Doesn’t Properly Cascade and Align KPIs

15 November, 2022 Aligning, Cascading & Linking, Balanced Scorecard, Making Strategy Measurable, Performance Measure Frameworks

Balanced Scorecard Strategy Maps are popular, but they are not the best way to properly cascade and align KPIs throughout an organisation. We have to applaud the Balanced Scorecard for...

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You Can Only Meaningfully Measure a Goal You Understand

22 September, 2022 Making Strategy Measurable, Meaningful Performance Measures

You might think you understand your goal, but when you struggle to measure it, you clearly don’t understand it well enough. Where do our goals come from? Are we really...

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How to Measure ESG Performance

21 June, 2022 Example Measures & KPIs, Making Strategy Measurable, Meaningful Performance Measures

ESG – or Environmental Social and Governance – performance measures abound, but which matter most to your ESG goals? I’ve never been a fan of one-size-fits-all or off-the-shelf measurement. So...

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The Grammar of a Measurable Goal

15 March, 2022 Making Strategy Measurable

Writing measurable goals doesn’t always come naturally, but one grammar formula makes it easier. Goals, objectives, priority statements and performance results are just some of the terminology we use to...

A Measurable Strategy on a Single Page

06 February, 2019 Aligning, Cascading & Linking, Cascading Strategy, Making Strategy Measurable, Strategy Execution

Strategy maps, like those used with the Balanced Scorecard, are the most commonly used visual representation of strategy on a single page. But are they the best way to visualise...

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