Measure What Matters

short cycle planning for strategic operation

Leadership Short Cycles

How can I help my team achieve our annual goals?

Short cycle planning allows the team to strategize about the actions helping them to achieve and those that are not.

Bigger goals become more manageable when broken up into smaller, less disconcerting, achievements.

Big Aims and Small Steps

Aim High, Start Small, and Keep Going.

Big goals can be tough. Achieve maximum outcomes by creating cycles of success through Short Cycle Planning.

Are You Measuring What Matters?

How do I know what to measure?

Checking in and monitoring each measure of success validates the use of the right measures and keeps us focused on what it takes to reach each goal. This exercise guides teams in reviewing measures that matter and discussing adjustments needed to experience success.

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Measuring What Matters

How do I know what matters?

As leaders, we are in a unique position to direct what is important in the organization and therefore what to measure. We want to work in organizations with clear goals and the strategies for success are equally clear. The performance level of an organization can be verified by reviewing the key metrics.

Benchmarking

How good do you want to be?

We benchmark to identify gaps, drive improvement, and learn what high-performing organizations are doing to achieve the standards.

Benchmark concept - measuring against the standard to be the best in your market

What Is Benchmarking?

Looking for a standard?

Most leaders want to be the best in class. Knowing what that means requires the use of benchmarks. In this video, research director, Julie Kunselman, explains what it means to benchmark and where to find benchmarks that will drive your organization to higher levels of success.

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Benefits of Benchmarking

What does being the best really mean?

We all want to peek under the curtain at our competition. It's just as helpful to know where we stand within our own organization. In this video, Robin Largue, describes the many benefits of using internal and external benchmark data.

Oh, the Data We Collect

Why collect data?

We gather data to provide information for making decisions about future directions or change needed for continued success. Collecting the right data and using it for improvement is essential to increasing performance.

Data Collection: Energy Audits

Make data work for you

Collecting data is one thing. Collecting data we'll actually use moves us to excellence. In this video, an executive leader explains how he uses operational data to change habits and maximize savings.

Collect the Right Data to Reflect: Insights from High-Performing Operations Leaders

How should I collect data?

High-performing leaders realize the importance of using data for reflection and improvement. Reflecting on the right data is important across the organization. Three operational leaders explain how they use data collecting throughout the year to reflect and plan for annual improvements.