Magazine & Press Articles
Here is a selection of magazine and press articles on enterprise
performance management and related topics.
Escape the Counting Trap
This article, published in the magazine 'Excellence in Leadership' explores the five most common mistakes made by organisations when implementing a performance management initiative. These traps are the strategy trap, the measurement trap, the performance management trap, the alignment trap and the automation trap.
Evidence-based Management
Today's challenging economic times demand that organisations make the right management decisions if they are to survive. This article, published in CIMA's Financial Management Magazine, explains the five steps that organisations should take if they want to become more evidence-based in their strategic decision-making.
Five Top Tips for CPM
This article on Corporate Performance Management (CPM) published in the US 'Business Management' magazine outlines the top five dos and don'ts: (1) Map your strategy, (2) collect meaningful information, (3) ensure strategic alignment, (4) focus on learning, and (5) automate appropriately. This is the lead article which will be followed by a series of articles on the five top tips.
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Information Overload
This article published in The Guardian newspaper is based on an interview with Bernard Marr and the latest API research into public sector performance. It highlights that public bodies "can't afford to mindlessly collect data that nobody will ever use".
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How smart are you?
Today’s most successful companies are 'Intelligent Companies' that use the best available data to inform their decision making. This article explores how intelligent companies bring together tools such as Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Key Performance Indicators, etc. to generate real competitive advantages. This article first appeared in the April 2010 issue of Qualityworld, the official monthly magazine of the Chartered Quality Institute. (www.thecqi.org/qualityworld)
Performance Anxiety
This article appeared in the 'Public Finance' magazine. It discusses performance management in public sector and government organisations and spells out the ABCs of good – and bad – practice. It also provides the first findings of a global study on public sector performance management.
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Lean & Six Sigma in Defence and Public Sector
This article by Bernard Marr, published in The Times, covers the need for efficiency and process improvement tools and the benefits they can bring. In addition, the article warns about the danger that these approaches are not used strategically and therefore the efficiency gains are often much smaller than they could be.
Intangible Assets Measurement
It's impossible to navigate an organisation to success without the necessary performance information on the key drivers of success. In today's world these critical performance drives tend to be intangible. This article, published in 'Financial Management' magazine, discusses how intangibles can be measured in a meaningful way.
Making the Invisible Visible: Identifying the enablers of future value
This article, published in the Journal of Accountancy, provides an overview of how to identify, measure and manage the intangible value drivers in organisations. For more information see also the Management Accounting Guideline (MAG) on intellectual capital. Impacting Future Value: How to Manage your Intellectual Capital provides detailed guidelines across the following five steps of successful intellectual capital management.
Make the invisible visible: identify intellectual capital
To deliver value an organisation must know what its goals are and how to achieve them. Clear strategy enables everyone to focus on what matters most. This article, published in 'CIMA Insight' discusses the importance of mapping strategies into cause-and-effect maps.
Managing and Measuring Local Government Performance
This article, published in the Australian Local Government magazine ‘Local Agenda’ explores 10 best practice steps towards better managing and measuring performance in Local Government.
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More With Less
Many companies and government organisations are being asked to become more effient and deliver 'More with Less'. This article, which first appeared in the April 2011 issue of Qualityworld (www.thecqi.org/qualityworld), looks at bringing together tools of performance management and lean to drive efficiency gains.
What’s the Score in the Public Sector? Rethinking the way we measure and manage Performance
This article, published in CIPFA's Performance Improvement Newsletter (PIN Point) briefly discusses three of the key performance management challenges in public sector organisations. The article also introduces the partnership between API and CIPFA in the area of public sector performance management.
Key Performance Indicators: The 75+ Measures Every Manager Needs to Know
Bernard Marr
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