Oct
22
Article: A Warren Buffet styled “Investment checklist”
October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Warren Buffet, called by many as the “greatest investor alive today” has always been vey open about the way Berkshire Hathaway invests. The annual reports are said by many to be compulsory reading to anybody who wants to improve their investment ‘success rate’. Many books have been written outlining Warren Buffet’s approach. I originally developed [...]
Oct
20
Article: Finding Your Organisations Critical Success Factors – The Missing Link In Performance Management
October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Understanding, measuring and managing critical success factors is increasingly important to ensuring the survival and future prosperity of organizations, in these times of economic recession and uncertainty. Click here for full article!
Oct
8
Article: Measuring Performance in Challenging Times
October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
With the economy in downturn and many businesses facing challenging times, we should be measuring business performance in a new way. Our traditional tools and processes for performance measurement are more akin to Charles Dickens than the 21st century, and thus more appropriate for the Victoria and Albert Museum than a fast and flexible organization. [...]
Aug
9
Article: Implementation Variations, Small To Medium Enterprises, Not For Profit Organisations
August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The following is an extract from the article: “Implementation Variations, Small To Medium Enterprises, Not For Profit Organisations”. When I first wrote about the twelve step process I set out an indicative implementation Gantt chart, see Exhibit 5.1. Attendees from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) have often requested my advice on a simpler truncated process. [...]
Jul
11
Article: Brainstorming Performance Measures
July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The following is an extract from the article: “Brainstorming Performance Measures”. The following diagrams show how I demonstrate brain storming of measures to attendees. There is a web cast on www.bettermanagement.com search under ‘parmenter’ and invest 40 minutes listening to ‘sorting the wheat from the chaff’ webcast. Click here to see full article