Measure

What's in a name? Well for performance measures, there's a lot in how they are named. Different organisations, in their performance measure experience ...  Read more

Every time you want to improve your productivity - you will find help in setting up a workflow documentation or simply called system for the task you ...  Read more

Customers today want, results not effort, solutions not idle chit chat and value and not promises. Many salespeople and organization's business relat ...  Read more

Are you guilty of using the following methods as your approach to measure selection: * brainstorming with your team in a one-hour session during your ...  Read more

Not everyone wants to (or indeed needs to) throw out their existing measures just because they aren't perfect. To make sure you don't throw the baby o ...  Read more

Some of the most common worries about setting targets for performance measures are: * challenge 1: Striking that sensitive balance between making the ...  Read more

For the last 3 years I have been helping a client take a sampling approach to measuring the accuracy of their inventory records. The measure is the ne ...  Read more

Todays’ discussion about the value of meetings and conferences moves to a new plane. Instead of focusing only on the Return on Investment (ROI), Execu ...  Read more

When most people, regardless of their profession, refer to their experience level they generally tell you how long they have been in the particular fi ...  Read more

There are a number of measures that get used for tracking inventory performance. One of the most popular is ‘stock outs’. A ‘stock out’ occurs when th ...  Read more

Over the last 5 or so years, there seems to be an ever-increasing number of organisations that are creating a new role in the corporate office: the Pe ...  Read more

Is your Business Growing as Fast as you Planned? Or aren’t you planning for growth at all? Or worse yet, do you not even know how your business is pe ...  Read more

Most weeks I have little or no difficulty in thinking what to write. This week was difficult, I was blank. Then along came web site statistics. You ma ...  Read more

Apparently the ideal salesman is the one who exceeds his sales quota...but isn't there more to it than that? The characteristics of a successful sale ...  Read more

We're just so busy and have too much on our plates, but we know we have to find time to measure performance - it's too important not to. Sound famili ...  Read more

What does an ideal new direct mail donor look like? How can you spot one in a crowd? Or in a list of potential donors? Look for the 3 Cs. Capacity T ...  Read more

Why do we measure organisational performance? The first answers that pop into your head might be: * you can't manage what you don't measure * what y ...  Read more

What is OEE for? The simple answer is “Improvement”. OEE is an improvement measure and is used as part of the improvement cycle. Unfortunately, much ...  Read more