Surely, one more beer/KPI won’t do any harm

Chatting with a client the other day I was describing how some management teams, without a disciplined method to select and choose measures, will  add extra measures into the  collection, “just to make things clearer”.   A problem that results in measure mania.

He choose took a different angle and moved the conversation onto the [...]

Changing the incentive and reward system using the Balanced Scorecard approach

In this video, (the third of three) Steve Lunn talks to Phil Jones about how he changed the incentive and reward system at Anglian Water using the Strategic Balanced Scorecard Approachas a central part of their Transformation project.

A significant part of the transformation programme carried out at Anglian Water, was changing the incentive and [...]

The failure of single point targets: A tragic NHS story

A tragic story of targets and “Incentives”

When explaining how poor targets and measures destroy common sense, I often cite the case of Accident and Emergency (A&E) times in UK NHS hospitals.

The government (through the Department of Health & Social Services DHSS) were concerned that patients were having long waits within A&E. So, to [...]