Diverse Metric Groupings

When developing the picture of organizational performance, many leaders view their metrics in clusters aligned with the organization’s hierarchical structure. While logical, such groupings cannot capture the cross-functional nature of many business processes, systems, and applications. Consequently, the organization’s monitoring system may provide the appearance of healthy performance that is inconsistent with what managers know to exist. Regrouping organizational performance measures often reveals these known issues and brings to light other previously unseen improvement opportunities that can yield great value to the business.

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Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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