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Predefined and Reinforced Data Standards

You’ve heard it a million times, “garbage in, garbage out.” But this axiom couldn’t be more true than in the case of organizational performance measures where in so many instances even a minute change in the data entered results in a profoundly different indicated performance. So how can an organization’s leaders be confident in the accuracy of their performance measurement data and the resulting measures? By defining and reinforcing a comprehensive set of organizational performance measure data standards.


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Documenting Performance Measure Drivers

Organizational performance measures help leaders drive behaviors, trigger actions, and create alignment. In addition to providing timely decision-making information, performance measures serve as mechanisms to quickly communicate results-based performance information throughout the organization.


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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 10 – Core Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 10 – Core Performance Measures elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 4 – Core Performance Measures. This discussion…

    • defines what core performance measures are
    • identifies the benefits of employing a performance measurement lattice
    • describes the guiding principles used to create an organizationally aligning measurement system

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 2 – Horizontally Shared. This discussion…

  • defines what horizontally shared performance measures are
  • identifies the benefits of employing shared measures
  • describes the steps taken to create comparative measures

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 8 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 3 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 8 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 3 of 3 elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 1 – Vertical Cascading. This discussion focuses on how to assess a performance measurement system for completeness and align it to individuals at various levels of an organization.