This is my final post for 2025, just in time for your holiday-season reading, ideally from a comfy chair next to the fireplace. It's food for thought for your 2026 New Year resolutions. So toss out that tired old "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and read this new tale to the kids and grandkids. ✨🎄🔥📚☕❄️🎁 … Continue reading The Complex Game of Planning
Tag: performance management
KPI Status Relationship Graph Revisited with LLMs
Introduction Back in 2006, I developed an ambitious idea that, though ahead of its time, now poses exciting possibilities in our data-driven era. The concept was simple yet potent: to construct a graph mapping various elements (such as database columns and parameters) used in formulas across Key Performance Indicator (KPI) statuses. The aim was to … Continue reading KPI Status Relationship Graph Revisited with LLMs
Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status
Everything we do towards achieving goals involves costs - sacrifice, investment (a positive way to look at it). We purposefully put things we already have (time, money, our career) to be consumed or at risk in the hope of achieving a goal. For the sake of this short blog, I'll call that investment "pain". I present this blog … Continue reading Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status
The Effect Correlation Score for KPIs
This content discusses the importance of aligning enterprise efforts with goals through proper performance management and strategies. It introduces the concept of an "Effect Correlation Score" (ECS) to validate the validity of efforts and KPI statuses in a constantly changing, competitive world. The ECS measures the correlation between a cause and its intended effect and is a crucial aspect of Performance Management planning. It warns against blindly pursuing good KPI statuses without considering ongoing changes and correlations, and highlights the complex nature of cause-and-effect relationships within strategies. The post proposes the implementation of ECS in Performance Management to validate relationships and ensure their continued relevance.
Bridging Predictive Analytics and Performance Management
Update note on June 10, 2023: This blog is very old and much has changed since 2010. Performance Point is no longer a thing, Predictive Analytics is now Machine Learning. However, the main message about the importance of the Strategy Map still stands. The notion of a Strategy Map as the primary BI object of … Continue reading Bridging Predictive Analytics and Performance Management
KPI Cause and Effect Visio Graph
Note on June 10, 2023: This blog was originally posted on an old blog site on March 12, 2006. I've posted it as it was in order to preserve the context, back-dating it to avoid confusion about why I'd write about SSAS and Visio today 🙂 The reason I re-posted this blog (June 10, 2023) … Continue reading KPI Cause and Effect Visio Graph