by Kevin Appleby | Jan 9, 2020
The Vital Role of the Business Accountant Are you a VITAL member of your business team? Unless you can answer that question with a very positive yes, then you might be out of a job in the very near future. There is a big threat to the accounting profession on...
by Kevin Appleby | Sep 18, 2014
In the last post we looked at the Hedgehog Concept, and how it could be used to develop the vision, or Big Hairy Audacious Goal for your business. One of the elements of the hedgehog concept is the economic engine. Lets consider how we can start linking KPI to your...
by Kevin Appleby | Sep 11, 2014
For most businesses, carrying on the way you have always done things is no longer an option, you need to change and adapt to survive. In this article we take a look at the hedgehog concept and see how that can help us . The world changes very very quickly. New...
by Kevin Appleby | Aug 14, 2014
If you are designing a scorecard or a performance dashboard you will, no doubt, be tempted to look at what other organisations measure. If you look around the internet there are lots of lists of KPI for all sorts of situations, for different industries, for different...
by Kevin Appleby | Jun 26, 2014
Knowing your business goals is essential to Designing effective KPIs Good KPIs should measure the things that will help you achieve your goals. It follows logically that before determining what to measure we need to know where we want to go. Does your business have a...
by Kevin Appleby | Jan 30, 2014
Motivating people is vital. If you are a leader it’s your responsibility to make sure your people are motivated. If you are running your own business you need to keep yourself motivated. But do you really know what motivates people? It might not be the things...
