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Should AI make layoff decisions?
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- 01 Jul 2023
- Dave Zielinksi
Research shows more HR leaders are using algorithms to recommend workforce reductions based on employee performance. Typical algorithms might evaluate skills data, performance data, work status data (e.g., full-time, part-time or contractor), and attendance data. But researchers say HR professionals also need to have a good understanding of performance aspects that algorithms might miss.
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Traditional vs contemporary management accounting practices
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- 01 Jun 2023
- Lu Jiao, Kevin Baird, Abubakar Nuraddeen Nuhu
Results of a survey examining the direct and moderated effects of traditional and contemporary management accounting practices on organizational performance and competitive advantage. The survey investigated the effectiveness of several practices, including: capital budgeting, standard costing, activity-based management, balanced scorecard and strategic cost management.
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Dashboards: From performance art to decision support
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- 01 May 2023
- Neil Hoyne, David Reibstein, Koen Pauwels
Dashboards are a common tool for managers to monitor a company's performance. But what is the real use of these dashboards? It may be slightly astonishing that Google Chief Measurement Strategist Neil Hoyne is no fan of dashboards, but he believes they can be toxic when taken out of context. In this interview, he explains his scepticism of monitoring the same KPIs quarter after quarter and suggests different ways to make dashboards more strategically useful to companies.
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Nurturing the UK's innovation ecosystem
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- 07 Feb 2023
- Sebastian Klovig Skelton
Andrew Roughan, CEO of technology innovation hub Plexal, discusses how tech startups collaborate with the UK government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved.
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Scale up smarter
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Dave Harutian
A company's execution strategy should adapt to the circumstances. Here's how to grow your business today with an eye toward tomorrow.
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SPC software: Enables real-time process management
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- 01 Nov 2022
- Paul Keller
A statistical process control (SPC) control chart is a key process management tool, providing indication if a manufacturing process is predictable and consistently capable of meeting requirements. The article explains how SPC software can be used to construct and update the control chart instantaneously.
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Employee ownership could be the future of capitalism – but it doesn't work unless workers earn it
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- 01 Oct 2022
- Bill Fotsch, Christos Makridis
Simply handing out shares to employees isn't the key to successful employee ownership, the authors argue. Without true participation, or taking on of responsibility, there's unlikely to be an increase in performance. Using survey data over a period of five years, they have found that partnership and participation substantially and consistently improve business performance. Five practices of an 'economically engaged' company are described.
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Solving 21st century challenges
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Vladimir Shper
A look at the relationship between Deming’s system of profound knowledge (SoPK) and modern management. The advantages of Shewhart's knowledge control charts for identifying variations that require management action is explained.
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Performance management shouldn’t kill collaboration
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Heidi K. Gardner, Ivan Matviak
Companies today need cross-silo collaboration to survive a volatile competitive environment but often their performance management systems discourage it. The authors outline specific ways companies can retool their performance management systems to boost collaboration.
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Measure what matters
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Wes Friesen
Wes Friesen provides ten guidelines that can help you select the right measures and set the right targets for your team and the broader organization. Done well, your team performance measures can help improve your outcomes, inspire staff, provide a common focus and allow you to track progress.
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Adapt company culture KPIs to the hybrid workplace
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- 01 May 2022
- Jamie Notter
Discover the correct indicators to measure with this guide to key performance indicators (KPIs) for employees working remotely.
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(PM)² method: Learn more about the basics of KPI management
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Grace Duffy, Yves Van Nuland
Yves Van Nuland and Grace Duffy outline their (PM)² method for guiding an organisation to professionally manage their KPIS for effective performance management. They explain the difference between a KPI and an indicator, types of indicators and how to standardize a KPI.
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Performance measurement and management in a VUCA world
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Mike Bourne
Mike Bourne retraces the history of performance measurement systems (PMS) from early factory costing systems through to the multi-dimensional approaches widely used today. He outlines emerging themes in the use of performance measurement systems in novel trading and economic environments.
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The critical first step to data security
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Marianne Bradford, Eileen Taylor, Megan Seymore
The article discusses the essential data security strategies that management accountants can use in applying business performance measurement skills in the identification of key performance indicators (KPI) for data security and classification. Topics include the IBM data showing that data breach average cost stood at 4.24 million dollars in 2020, and the importance of data classification as the foundation of data security.
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The guided self-control management model
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Klaus Moeller, Franz Wirnsperger
How replacing traditional budgeting with modern performance management practices can transform your management control systems and drive organizational agility.
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Bold voices and new opportunities: An expanded research agenda for the resource-based view
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Jay B.Barney, David J.Ketchen Jr, Mike Wright
The editors introduce fourteen articles within a special issue on the resource-based view of the firm. Collectively, they highlight three types of pathways for additional contributions involving the resource-based view of the firm: opportunities to enhance synergy between the resource-based view and other theories, opportunities to build greater content knowledge by leveraging the resource-based view, and opportunities to expand the strategic resources concept.
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Management accounting systems and performance measurement at Lean companies
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Lawrence P.Grasso, Thomas Tyson
Results from a survey of manufacturers interested in or actively engaged in Lean manufacturing and Lean production. The authors' research supports the common perception that Lean transformation of the accounting function lags behind other areas.
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Application of SWOT technique in business management
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- 01 Jan 2021
- Mihaela Ghicajanu
An example of applying the SWOT technique, using a fictional pastry and confectionery company as a case study of strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
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Performance evaluation will not die, but it should
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- 01 Jan 2020
- Kevin R. Murphy
This provocative article argues that organisations should consider abandoning the flawed practice of regular employee performance evaluation, and focus instead on the few situations in which performance evaluation and feedback can be truly useful.
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What is the key to effective SWOT analysis, including AQCD factors
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- 01 Dec 2019
- Steven A.Creek, Forest R.David, Fred R.David
Advice on how to make SWOT analysis factors specific, using actionable, quantitative, comparative, and divisional (AQCD) criteria. The authors provide guidance for all companies and organizations to conduct strategic planning more effectively, with a particular emphasis on conducting effective SWOT analysis.
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AI in data governance
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- 01 Oct 2019
- Daniel Smith
The article explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving small business data governance. Topics covered include the consideration of AI as a way to augment human intelligence, how AI can help in democratizing data governance, and the ability of AI in identifying internal and external data sets and evaluating the importance of the data sets to an organization's target performance metrics.
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Organizational change management and culture: Keys to lasting, sustainable cost improvement
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- 01 Jul 2019
- Harry Haney, Shane McCarthy, Dean Myers, Nick Richardson, Vikrant Viniak
Case studies from companies that have successfully implemented change management initiatives in their supply chains.
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Jumping into project management
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Javier Augusto Gonzalez
Five powerful tips for new project managers faced with fresh teams and uncertain authority.
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Business intelligence tomorrow... and what it means for today
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- 01 May 2019
- Jelani Harper
An update on developments in business intelligence, including natural language search and augmented analytics.
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How to create Key Performance Indicators
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- 01 Apr 2019
- Jeffry Haber, Caitlin Schryver
How not-for-profit organizations can develop meaningful and relevant key performance indicators (KPIs).
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Revision of performance measurement tools and methods
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- 01 Jan 2019
- Alladyn Elmgasbi
The article discusses and compares several popular performance measurement tools and methods, including: the Balanced Scorecard, Tableau de bord, Skandia Navigator, Intangible Assets Monitor, German Scorecard, Business Excellence Model, Dutch system of performance management, Performance Prism and the EFQM Excellence Model.
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Applying balanced scorecards to supply chain performance
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- 01 Nov 2018
- M.Balaji, S.N. Dinesh, V.Veera Parthiban
Article on the advantages of using the balanced scorecard system and the four different perspectives of its framework.
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The fairness factor
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Bryan Hancock, Elizabeth Hioe, Bill Schaninger
Discusses the role of fairness in performance management, including employee perceptions, business priorities, arbitration and rewarding success. The article also looks at the use of digital technologies in performance management.
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The perils of KPI-driven management
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Kevin Kaiser, S. David Young
This article examines the downsides of relying heavily on key performance indicators (KPIs) to define and assess a company's success. The authors argue for a smarter use of KPIs, which prioritises organisational learning and aids value creation.
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"It would destroy me if we lost the company culture"
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- 01 May 2018
- People Management
Article features the media planning agency December 19 to discuss the importance of company culture in achieving business success. Also cited are the company's co-founders Dave Barnett and Dan Pimm, the firm's focus on treating people right and developing relationships rather than profitability, as well as the business' financial performance including a twofold increase in turnover annually
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