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Are you learning from failure?

Matthew Syed’s book “Black Box Thinking” (2015, John Murray Publishing, London) highlights some interesting aspects of learning from failure. Syed compares the learning culture of the US Health Care Industry with the Aviation Industry and talks a lot about transparency, openness, reporting and the opportunity to learn from mistakes. He also presents some challenging questions…
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Performance management: are we too old fashioned?

In 1909 plastic had just been invented and now we’re trying desperately not to use it; a manual worker earned 23 shillings a week, a dozen eggs cost a shilling, Now look at 2019. A report from the TUC reveals that 1.5m people work from home. The relationship between employees and employers has also changed….
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A new perspective of strategy: the evolution of humming birds and plants

It’s a depressing statistic that about 90% of strategic plans are not implemented. Just think about the wasted time and effort that has been put into plans that haven’t been followed. Why does it happen? Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh from Fractal Consulting gave a presentation on strategy at Cranfield but presented a new way…
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Baobabs and business: taking the long view of performance

What do you know about Baobab trees? I spent my early years in Africa and remember them well – they are difficult to forget as they look so strange – so when I heard a programme on the radio linking them to a very unusual business I just had to listen. This is the…
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Performance measurement is really about finance, isn’t it?

Someone said this to me at a conference and it made me cringe. But it also made me question what performance is all about. Finance people tend to think it is about finance. HR people believe it’s about people. Marketing people focus on customers … and so on. In fact, it’s about all these things…
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Public Sector

Pressure to demonstrate value for money, to ensure effective outcomes and to operate within strict budgetary limits are at an all-time high. Our experience within the public sector can help you to define the outcomes required, plan the interventions needed and measure progress along the way.

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Charities

For charities and not-for-profit organisations measuring and demonstrating impact is the core way of showing supporters, funders and beneficiaries what has been achieved and of motivating and engaging them. Our support will help you to measure and define what those impacts are and to establish where your efforts should be focussed to achieve more.

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SMEs

Managing and measuring performance for SMEs may seem less important than focussing on day-to-day operations as both time and resources are limited. This is not the case. We can help you build a system that will help you track progress, know where to focus your efforts and ensure limited resources are put to the best use.

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Large Corporations

Whether it’s managing multiple sites or ensuring different teams collaborate on goals, tracking performance across organisations and feeding back intelligence is crucial. We implement performance management systems that help you turn that intelligence into action.

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Are you learning from failure?

Performance management: are we too old fashioned?

A new perspective of strategy: the evolution of humming birds and plants

Baobabs and business: taking the long view of performance

Performance measurement is really about finance, isn’t it?

Helping your organisation build sustainable performance

Public Sector

Charities

SMEs

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