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Measure what matters
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Wes Friesen
- Business Credit
Wes Friesen provides ten guidelines that can help you select the right measures and set the right targets for your team and the broader organization. Done well, your team performance measures can help improve your outcomes, inspire staff, provide a common focus and allow you to track progress.
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Adapt company culture KPIs to the hybrid workplace
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- 01 May 2022
- Jamie Notter
- TD - Talent Development
Discover the correct indicators to measure with this guide to key performance indicators (KPIs) for employees working remotely.
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(PM)² method: Learn more about the basics of KPI management
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Grace Duffy, Yves Van Nuland
- Quality
Yves Van Nuland and Grace Duffy outline their (PM)² method for guiding an organisation to professionally manage their KPIS for effective performance management. They explain the difference between a KPI and an indicator, types of indicators and how to standardize a KPI.
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The critical first step to data security
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Marianne Bradford, Eileen Taylor, Megan Seymore
- Strategic Finance
The article discusses the essential data security strategies that management accountants can use in applying business performance measurement skills in the identification of key performance indicators (KPI) for data security and classification. Topics include the IBM data showing that data breach average cost stood at 4.24 million dollars in 2020, and the importance of data classification as the foundation of data security.
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The guided self-control management model
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Klaus Moeller, Franz Wirnsperger
- Strategic Finance
How replacing traditional budgeting with modern performance management practices can transform your management control systems and drive organizational agility.
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Management accounting systems and performance measurement at Lean companies
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Lawrence P.Grasso, Thomas Tyson
- Management Accounting Quarterly
Results from a survey of manufacturers interested in or actively engaged in Lean manufacturing and Lean production. The authors' research supports the common perception that Lean transformation of the accounting function lags behind other areas.
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Storage decisions for AI, machine learning and big data
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- 25 Aug 2020
- Stephen Pritchard
- Computer Weekly
Article looks at the fact that artificial intelligence and machine learning storage is not one-size-fits-all. Analytics work has varied storage requirements for capacity, latency, throughput and IOPS. The investment needed by larger artificial intelligence and business intelligence projects in storage, compute, and networking is discussed.
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AI in data governance
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- 01 Oct 2019
- Daniel Smith
- Strategic Finance
The article explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving small business data governance. Topics covered include the consideration of AI as a way to augment human intelligence, how AI can help in democratizing data governance, and the ability of AI in identifying internal and external data sets and evaluating the importance of the data sets to an organization's target performance metrics.
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Organizational change management and culture: Keys to lasting, sustainable cost improvement
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- 01 Jul 2019
- Harry Haney, Shane McCarthy, Dean Myers, Nick Richardson, Vikrant Viniak
- Supply Chain Management Review
Case studies from companies that have successfully implemented change management initiatives in their supply chains.
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Jumping into project management
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Javier Augusto Gonzalez
- PM Network
Five powerful tips for new project managers faced with fresh teams and uncertain authority.
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Tullow Oil plc: MarketLine company profile
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- 23 May 2019
- MarketLine
Company profile report on Tullow Oil plc, the independent oil and gas exploration, development and production group.
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Business intelligence tomorrow... and what it means for today
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- 01 May 2019
- Jelani Harper
An update on developments in business intelligence, including natural language search and augmented analytics.
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How modern business intelligence shapes up big data
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- 09 Apr 2019
- Brian McKenna
- Computer Weekly
The article discusses the evolution and changes of business analytics and business intelligence (BI) in the U.S. The topics discussed include the evolution of BI strategies amidst big data, the changes made by organizations and companies in their BI tool options, and ways on how they set up BI in their technical architectures and teams..
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How to create Key Performance Indicators
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- 01 Apr 2019
- Jeffry Haber, Caitlin Schryver
- CPA Journal
How not-for-profit organizations can develop meaningful and relevant key performance indicators (KPIs).
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Southern Water's centralised data team gears up for silo busting
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- 05 Feb 2019
- Brian McKenna
- Computer Weekly
How Southern Water has overhauled its data management and business intelligence technology.
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Beneath the data
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- 01 Feb 2019
- James Hao, Christopher Kelly
- Internal Auditor
How internal auditors can use business intelligence tools to mine their organization’s data.
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Applying balanced scorecards to supply chain performance
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- 01 Nov 2018
- M.Balaji, S.N. Dinesh, V.Veera Parthiban
- ISE Industrial and Systems Engineering at Work
Article on the advantages of using the balanced scorecard system and the four different perspectives of its framework.
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You dont need more salespeople, you need more productivity
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- 01 Oct 2018
- Peter Helmer
- Marketing News
The author discusses the six ways to minimize the nonselling time of the business. Ways include automating prospect research by tapping social media sites and by using business intelligence, delegating or outsourcing lead generation and cultivation, and standardizing proposals and contracts. Also mentioned are the standardization of sales tools, the delegation of cross-sell/upsell, and assignment of customer service and administration.
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Sales performance management software
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Klie Leonard
- CRM Magazine
The article presents an update on the sales performance management (SPM) software market as of September 2018. The market comprises more back-office sales process automation when compared to the old incentive management category. SPM helps companies to improve sales execution and operational efficiency
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The fairness factor
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Bryan Hancock, Elizabeth Hioe, Bill Schaninger
- McKinsey Quarterly
Discusses the role of fairness in performance management, including employee perceptions, business priorities, arbitration and rewarding success. The article also looks at the use of digital technologies in performance management.
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"It would destroy me if we lost the company culture"
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- 01 May 2018
- People Management
- People Management
Article features the media planning agency December 19 to discuss the importance of company culture in achieving business success. Also cited are the company's co-founders Dave Barnett and Dan Pimm, the firm's focus on treating people right and developing relationships rather than profitability, as well as the business' financial performance including a twofold increase in turnover annually
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How the best managers can get the most from their staff
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- 30 Apr 2018
- Harvard Business Review
Outcomes of research carried out to understand how managers can do a better job of providing the coaching and development up-and-coming talent needs.
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Untangling your organisation's decision making
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- 01 Oct 2017
- Aaron De Smet, Gerald Lackey, Leigh M Weiss
- McKinsey Quarterly
A discussion of the role of executives and management in improving an organisation's decision making processes, chiefly through the categorization of decisions into four types. The article offers an overview of the impact that decisions have on the organizational behavior of businesses.
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Ahead of the curve
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Shruti Chadha
- Human Capital
Organisations should closely examine their performance processes and consider alternative performance management options such as coaching, gamification and apps.
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6 ways big data is enhancing the global supply chain
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Bridget McCrea
- Supply Chain Management Review
The article focuses on big data and discusses how it is impacting the global supply chain management. Topics discussed include the tracking of products by combining the purchase order details, shipment information and carrier's tracking information; the use of data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to make predictions.
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Helping people change
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- 01 Jul 2017
- Tess Robinson
- Training Journal
Stimulating and sustaining behaviour change in organisations is easy to get wrong - here's advice on how to avoid the 10 mistakes of behaviour change.
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Growing up in analytics
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- 01 Jul 2017
- Daniel Smith | Timothy Driscoll
- Strategic Finance
Gaining effective analytics depends on a clear understanding of not only the tools but the human expertise and strategy needed in reporting and data science. The article explains the skills required to carry out good quality data science, data reporting and business intelligence.
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The [re] evolution of Learning and Development
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- 01 Jul 2017
- Shruti Chadha
- Human Capital
Article looks at developments in corporate training, learning and development - a shift from a trainer-led to learner-led model and future developments including the use of virtual reality and augmented reality.
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A different kind of number crunching: Accounting firm's embrace of six sigma is generating results
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- 26 Jun 2017
- George O'Brien
- BusinessWest
George O'Brien finds out how US accountants Meyers Brothers Kalicka have used Six Sigma to improve efficiency - proving that it can work as well in the service sector as in manufacturing.
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A CEO action plan for workplace automation
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Michael Chui, Katy George, Mehdi Miremadi
- McKinsey Quarterly
The article discusses the business performance benefits of workplace automation and artificial intelligence (AI), strategic opportunities for companies, and the future of work. It states that beyond the elimination of labor and operating costs savings, automation can transform business processes, deliver improvements in speed, quality, flexibility, and customer service. The authors offer advice to senior executives on developing an action plan for integrating automation into the workplace.
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