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Implementing an Organizational Performance Measures System

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Performance Measure Development Sheets

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice ArticleEffective performance measurement systems consist of high-quality individual measures associated with a strongly interrelated framework. Using this deliberately developed framework, leaders ascertain organizational performance quickly and accurately. The system itself should be economic to maintain and provide readily available updates typically necessitating a degree of automation. Quality systems present the same view of performance to a broad number of individuals within the organization concurrently. To achieve all of these qualities, each measure must be well thought-out and developed individually and then integrated into the collective system.


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Additional Information

Additional information on the individual characteristics of quality performance measures and their construction can be found in the following StrategyDriven articles and documents:

Articles

Documents

  • Organizational Performance Measures – Types
  • Organizational Performance Measures – Construction

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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Style Sheets

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice ArticleA performance measure’s value evolves from its ability to instigate and/or influence action. To do this, the measure must accurately reflect materially important performance parameters and present that information in a timely, readily understandable manner. It is to this later characteristic that performance metric style sheets are critically important.


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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Contextual References

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice ArticleAll performance is relative and performance measures without contextual references are largely meaningless. Such measures provide a performance count without a value indicator. Without this indicator, managers cannot know what, if any, action is required.


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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Direct Use of Production System Data for Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Warning Flag ArticleData access frequently challenges metric developers. Consequently, they may resort to using the most readily available performance data; data that can be obtained through a user defined production application query and downloaded into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or Access database.


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