Entries by Nathan Ives

Executive Vision – The Blueprint for Breakthrough Leadership: Health Care

Executive Vision is a five part series created by CNBC and sponsored by Credit Suisse. Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace. Distinguished Guests Sir Bill Castell, The Wellcome […]

The New Thinking on KPIs, part 4 of 4

Removing the lead / lag confusion Many management books talk about “lead and lag indicators” which I believe merely clouds the KPI debate. Using this new way of looking at KPIs we dispense with the terms lag (outcome) and lead (performance driver) indicators. I have presented to nearly two thousand people on KPIs and I […]

The New Thinking on KPIs, part 3 of 4

The four types of performance measures I have come to the conclusion that there are four types of performance measures, as shown in Figure 3. This conclusion has come from: the research I have conducted; workshop feedback across diverse industries; and as a by-product of writing my book “Key Performance Indicators – developing, implementing and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 5 – Introduction to Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 5, Introduction to Organizational Performance Measures, serves as a foundation for the upcoming series of podcasts on the best practices associated with organizational performance measures.

Organizational Accountability – Pillars of Accountability

Building an accountable organization can be a long and arduous task; renovating an entitlement organization even more difficult. During this construction project, many able builders will be lost, the victims of a harsh environment that naturally exists between the competent who seek the rightfully earned rewards of performance-based accountability and the low performers struggling to hold on to their positions of power and the accompanying easy life organizational indifference and years of clock-punching bestowed upon them.