Our blog articles about strategy, people, performance, decision making, balanced scorecards and culture change
Here is a way into my blog articles, over 300 of them: It is structured into major topics areas linking to the most articles in each topic area. These cover:
- The Strategy Zone
- Communicating & socialising Strategy: An Executive’s guide
- The Decision Improvement Zone:
- The Culture & Behavioural Change Zone
- The Performance Management Zone: A guide to understanding the management of performance
- Modern Balanced Scorecard Zone
- The 4G Strategic Management Zone
- How we look at our organisations and how we manage: The Paradigm Shift Zone
- Thought provoking articles about how we manage our organisations
Simply scroll down through the various topic areas and articles…
1) Strategy choice, approach and implementation articles: Most recent first
Aligning the organisation with the strategy
A key part of strategic performance management is aligning the organisation with the strategy. We help our clients align their organisation with their strategy in a variety of ways. Here are just a few examples. Aligned Projects & Programmes If your investments...
2) Communicating & Socialising Strategy articles: Most recent first
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3) Decision making and decision taking articles: Most recent first
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4) Performance management, various types and perspectives. Most recent articles first
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5) How to achieve Cultural and Behavioural change. Most recent articles first
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5) Modern Balanced Scorecards. Most recent articles first
Our target is to kill two people
What could possibly make an organisation have a target that involved two people being killed. The Audit Commission (RIP) is the answer. I was developing a balanced scorecard with a Fire and Rescue Service and, obviously, they want NO deaths of injuries from fires....
Do not rename the learning and growth perspective on a balanced scorecard
So often I come across “balanced scorecards” that have re-named the learning and growth perspective as “people” or “employees”. They think it is more representative. However the original name was given for a reason. There are three good reasons for keeping the name...
What is the difference between a dashboard and a scorecard
As with many words in this area, they are used loosely. It helps if there are distinctions. It helps if you use plain English. I use "scorecard" when I am looking at a table of figures with results on them. Its a set of scores on a card (hence scorecard). I use...
Don’t do a balanced scorecard for an organisation
I sometimes get asked “How do you draw a strategy map on a page for a whole organisation?” The answer is you don’t do a balanced scorecard for a whole organisation. The answer is the same as for the question, “How do you limit a balanced scorecard to 24 measures?”...
Objectives before measures helps when refining and revising measures
Why do we use objectives before measures? Because it makes it easier to refine and revise measures. What happens is we have measures but no objectives? In the absence of objectives, people designing performance management systems often compensate for problems with...
Avoiding premature measure design – use objectives first
Why should a balanced scorecard have objectives as well as measures? Developing objectives before measures prevents premature measure design. This is the tendency for people to leap straight to measures instead of defining more clearly what they want to measure. If...
6) Fourth Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecards and modern methods of management. Most recent articles first
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7) Paradigm shifts that affect our organisations and how we manage.
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7) Thought provokers, designed to make you consider thinking differently about how we manage and our organisations:
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