Design Your KPIs

Putting the Key into Key Performance Indicators

By Bernie | July 20, 2012

How many “top level” KPIs do you have? If you have more than 10 top-level measures then you probably have too many. Building a measurement hierarchy (using a KPI Tree) can help show which ones are crucial. Remember to focus on the indicators that support your strategy. If you want to find out how to…

Guest Blog: The 12 Characteristics of Good Performance Measures

By Peter Chisambara | September 30, 2011

KPIs are critical for the success of any organisation. They are a measure of progress against goals. However, not every measure is a KPI. Put it in the words of Albeit Einstein,“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”. Good performance measures allow for comparisons to be made…

Smooth bottoms and dashboard design

By Bernie | August 30, 2011

Most people don’t look at the bottom of their laptop. If they do then they will see one of two things: If it’s a Apple Mac the bottom with be smooth and (with the latest ones) completely featureless apart from four rounded rubber feet. If it’s a PC it will have little hatches, a Microsoft…

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1000 irritations or 1 catastrophe?

By Bernie | February 14, 2011

How most banks complaints systems drive them to fix trivial problems first and ignore the rarer customer disasters.

Three questions to tell if your strategy is broken

By Bernie | December 14, 2010

Why that call centre wants to get you off the phone…

By Bernie | November 20, 2010

We have all been hurried off the phone by a call centre. Have you ever wondered what made that happen?

Harry Beck

When to leave things out and ignore people….

By Bernie | November 8, 2010

Sometimes things jar when you first see them. I see this a lot with dashboards that I help design (or redesign). People become very wedded to both the look – but more crucially they are wedded to the logic of how something is laid out. I think a brilliant example of this is the modern…