Implement Your KPIs

Team Efficiency and Cognitive Dissonance in the Workplace

By Bernie Smith | September 9, 2011

What happens when you adjust metrics and targets to be more realistic, but it leaves your workforce feeling like they’re suddenly underperforming, even though their actual performance hasn’t changed at all? In today’s data-driven world, metrics and targets are the bedrock of organisational performance. But what happens when these measures don’t tell the full story?…

Data Production – 10 Point Checklist

By Bernie Smith | September 6, 2011

How good is your organisation a producing the data you need? (we aren’t talking about analysis, see this analysis checklist for that). Carefully answer these questions (you can use a 1-5 scale to improve the resolution of the checklist, where 1 is low/poor and 5 is high/strong). Does data arrive in a structured way, ready…

Too many reports? A great tip…

By Bernie Smith | February 28, 2011

A friend of mine recently mentioned her brilliant tip for finding out how many people read the reports that you send out. She decided to password protect the regular report that she sent out to over 300 people. Just two people requested the password. If you have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t reading the…