Refining and revising measures

Why do we use objectives before measures?  Because it makes it easier to refine and revise measures In the absence of objectives, people designing performance management systems often compensate for problems with measures by adding more measures in the hope that they are communicating and covering all the aspects.  This unfortunately leads to overload, confusion [...]

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards Part 4

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecards Part 4 “The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.” Chinese proverb.

I’m reminded of this every time I work on measures for performance management in an organisation.

As you read this, just imagine you are in a workshop developing measures for your [...]