BBC gets what it deserves on profits reporting

BBC gets what it deserves on profits reporting

Am I the only one who gets frustrated with the way the BBC news reports company results? Every news report seems to focus on, “This very large company (with highly paid directors) made (some large number with billions in it) profits last year. That is £(a huge [...]

KPI Strategy workshop: What is important for your organisation to measure, and How to construct meaningful KPIs

KPI Strategy workshop: What is important for your organisation to measure, and How to construct meaningful KPIs

This is an advert more than a blog, but at least you will get to hear about it and talk to me directly

Are you concerned that your organisation is not measuring the right things to determine Performance [...]

Satisfying the accountants, or a deeper cultural issue

Satisfying the accountants, or a deeper cultural issue

My son came home from his sixth form studies last week and told me that he had been invited in to see and act as the questioning audience to a series of business studies AS level presentations. The business studies students were practising presenting their business cases [...]

Environmental strategy and environmental scorecards

Environmental strategy and an environmental scorecard

I have just been in conversation on a performance management forum and wanted to vent my spleen a bit.

The discussion was, the Balanced Scorecard needs another perspective in addition to financial, customer, process and learning and growth to represent the environment.

I argued that you could put [...]

Welcome to the Excitant Blog

Welcome to the Excitant Blog

Here I get to write about things to do with strategy , management, business models, performance, management thinking, strategy planning processes, strategic thinking and other stuff that comes to mind.

Phil