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Performance Measures and Thresholds Aligned with Regulatory Standards
Federal, state, and local governments regulate almost every aspect of the business environment. While many requirements necessitate one-time actions, others govern ongoing business operations. Performance measures dedicated to monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements and possessing thresholds tailored to ensuring timely, preemptive corrective actions prevent noncompliance, provide regulatory margin, and minimize management distraction.
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Nathan Ives 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.
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Performance measures record specified outcomes achieved either at a specified time or within a defined interval and so, by their very nature, are time dependent. Consequently, a performance measure alters the behaviors of those being monitored not only in relationship to what is being monitored but also to when the outcome is being monitored.
A performance measurement system’s complexity and organizational impact can bring with it many people, process, and technology challenges post implementation. For several months following a system go-live or significant upgrade, the organization adjusts its processes, procedures, and behaviors so to achieve the best possible reflected performance. This evolution is not without its costs or problems.
When developing the picture of organizational performance, many leaders view their metrics in clusters aligned with the organization’s hierarchical structure. While logical, such groupings cannot capture the cross-functional nature of many business processes, systems, and applications. Consequently, the organization’s monitoring system may provide the appearance of healthy performance that is inconsistent with what managers know to exist. Regrouping organizational performance measures often reveals these known issues and brings to light other previously unseen improvement opportunities that can yield great value to the business.
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