Performance Management – a story told through key survey figures and statistics

Written by Aurel Brudan on May 21, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 20/2010

Performance Management is one of the most dynamic business disciplines today. Its evolution accelerated over the last 20 years and due to the large number of concepts it employs and unstructured body of knowledge, having a comprehensive big picture view of the topic is rather challenging. One way of achieving this is by reading a lot and doing a critical review to the various ideas proposed. Another option is by monitoring the pulse of the discipline as reflected in studies and survey reports covering performance management topics.

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What is wrong with Performance Measurement?

Written by Aurel Brudan on May 14, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 19/2010

A simple answer is over-reliance on measurement and its merits.

Since ancient times, humans had a fascination with measurement. In discovering the natural universe, measurement has its merits and one might say it is indispensable.

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Performance Measurement taxonomy – linking Performance Measurement and Management

Written by Aurel Brudan on April 17, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 15/2010

In my previous update, I discussed the concept of taxonomy and outlined the structure of a Performance Management taxonomy.  A subset of Performance Management is Performance Measurement and thus a separate taxonomy is required to illustrate its key elements.

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Applying Goal Setting Theory in practice: An action research exercise

Written by Aurel Brudan on February 25, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 8/2010

In my previous updates I highlighted the importance of theory in performance management and introduced the goal setting theory as one of the most important informing the discipline. I also outlined the importance of understanding the complexities of setting targets.

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Setting targets, cooking steak and using thermometers

Written by Aurel Brudan on February 20, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Organisational performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 7/2010

Setting targets is relatively easy if you want to make it easy – just pluck a number from the air, make it your target and strive to achieve it. However, there is more to target setting than a simple number selection.

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