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Enterprise Performance
5 Employee KPIs Every Manager Should Know
Employees play an important role in helping the organization achieve its mission, vision and objectives. Today, many businesses are relying on their employees to drive business performance and remain competitive. This is contrary to decades ago where fixed assets where regarded as the main drivers of superior performance and returns. As the value and contribution read more
Enterprise Performance
The Role of Finance in Driving Sales Effectiveness
These days customers are more equipped with more information about the company’s products and services before they have even talked to the salespeople. Unfortunately, in most organizations, the sales function normally lacks high-quality data to drive sales effectiveness. For example, sales managers lack data to help align sales incentives, overcome price pressures and become a read more
Enterprise Performance
Remedies for Forecasting Illnesses
Yesterday I wrote about the seven common symptoms of forecasting illness and how they can lead to uninformed decisions making. In an increasingly volatile and uncertain world, the ability to anticipate the future, even if only a few months ahead, can mean the difference between survival and failure. Unfortunately, future uncertainty is much greater than read more
7 Common Symptoms of Forecasting Illness
When making decisions, managers should not rely only on information about what happened
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Developing Objectives for the Employee Learning & Growth Perspective
Previously, I focused on developing objectives for the Financial, Customer and Internal Process
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Developing Objectives for the Internal Business Process Perspective
My previous two posts focused on developing objectives for the financial and customer
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Developing Objectives for the Strategy Map Customer Perspective
Not all prospective customers will support your revenue and profitable growth or find
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Developing Objectives for the Strategy Map Financial Perspective
In my previous blog post, I touched on why your organization needs a
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Why You Need a Strategy Map
Rated as one of the most popular management tools, the balanced scorecard has
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