Keep Your Unit of Measure Intuitive

Keep Your Unit of Measure Intuitive

Anyone trying to eat healthily or count calories can relate to the confusing state of nutritional measures. The app I (sometimes) use tracks bread in grams, almonds in ounces, soup in grams, and sometimes ambiguously lists “serving” as the unit of measure. So, if I...
A Recipe for Roasted Strategic Assumptions

A Recipe for Roasted Strategic Assumptions

Many of you have probably already heard this story commonly shared by consultants, but bear with me. A woman got home from work one day and found her husband preparing a roast for dinner. Before he put the meat in the oven, he cut a few inches off the end and saved it...
OKR, KPI and BSC: What is the Difference?

OKR, KPI and BSC: What is the Difference?

I was talking with a client the other day about adding OKRs to their BSC system and she stopped me in mid-sentence. “Wait a minute,” she said with a skeptical smile. “Are OKRs just KPIs with a new name so that you consultants have something new to sell?” To her point,...
KPI Development: When to Use Ratios

KPI Development: When to Use Ratios

Let’s say you are managing a large organization and your HR director comes to you with bad news. The total number of employees leaving the company has skyrocketed. They show you the chart to the right to indicate that the raw number of employees leaving last year was...
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