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February 14, 2007
The two "wows" of yesterday
Yesterday we had a meeting of the Hyperion Alliance for Performance Leadership (APL) in the Prescott House of MIT in Boston, a beautiful location. The APL is Hyperions think tank where Hyperion customers interact with each other, world-renowned academics such as professor Tom Malone, and Hyperions internal faculty.
Yesterdays topic was metrics that matter, and there were two thoughts I wanted to share with you.
- Based on a discussion about the eBay business model: Which metrics would you design if the salary of employees would be 80% variable, instead of 20%. And how much more effective would we be if those metrics would be implemented in todays environment with our current compensation systems. Think about it. The metrics that matter that much, because your income depends on it, really.
- In a discussion on how hard it is to measure the culture of an organization in a merger or acquisition process, other than it smells like our culture, the discussion all of a sudden turned around: you should look at the metrics that the organization has in place, to get a feel for the culture. What is measured, obviously matters to the company. What you measure, gets done.
Two straightforward, but deep insights. Wow.
For more, you can always look on the Hyperion Executive Perspectives web-page where from time to time findings will be published.
Posted by Frank Buytenkijk at February 14, 2007 11:59 AM
