23-slide PowerPoint
$29.00
$29.00, 23-slides, Best for: Executives and team leads running quarterly planning, alignment workshops, and OKR rollouts with ready templates
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out by pairing the OKR framework with practical artifacts—ready-to-use templates for setting objectives and key results, plus tracking sheets and department-specific examples—so teams can move from concept to measurable execution. It also offers a workshop-ready structure, including an agenda for OKR kickoff, development, and review sessions, and emphasis on SMART criteria to tighten the quality of key results. The resources are most useful for executives and team leads overseeing quarterly planning and OKR rollouts, as well as HR or program managers aiming to improve alignment and accountability across the organization. [Learn more]
33-slide PowerPoint
$29.00
$29.00, 33-slides, Best for: Executives and strategy leads translating corporate strategy into measurable goals with executive-ready slides
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck combines the OGSM framework with ready-to-use slide templates you can drop into your own presentations, making strategy actionable rather than purely theoretical. It is positioned for sectors where rigorous alignment matters, with emphasis on technology, healthcare, and manufacturing to translate vision into measurable execution. Strategy offices and transformation teams aiming to link high-level goals to cross-functional initiatives and KPI tracking will find it particularly useful. [Learn more]
35-slide PowerPoint, Excel template
$59.00
$59.00, 35-slides + supplemental tools, Best for: Senior executives implementing a Balanced Scorecard-based dashboard to monitor cross-unit strategy execution.
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck pairs a Balanced Scorecard backbone with an exclusive scoring methodology developed by former BCG and EY consultants, making it a practical execution tool rather than a theoretical framework. It includes a ready-to-use Excel workbook that auto-generates a consolidated organizational score and departmental breakdowns, with a traffic-light status indicator and an embedded dashboard for trend visualization. It’s especially valuable for senior leaders coordinating cross-unit strategy and monthly governance reviews, providing a single-view lens to drive timely adjustments across units. [Learn more]
25-slide PowerPoint
$29.00
$29.00, 25-slides, Best for: Executives and consultants conducting maturity assessments and building KPI, governance, and integration roadmaps
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out by pairing a five-level Performance Management Maturity Model with explicit governance, architecture, and integration levers, plus templates you can tailor for KPI documentation and reporting. Built with the backing of former McKinsey and Big 4 consultants, it delivers detailed assessment criteria and a structured path from Initial to Optimized maturity. It is particularly valuable for executives, integration leads, and consultants who need to assess current capabilities and craft a practical roadmap to elevate performance management across the organization. [Learn more]
106-slide PowerPoint
$109.99
$109.99, 106-slides, Best for: Executives and financial analysts evaluating shareholder value using MVA, EP, and CFROI in strategic planning and investments
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck distinguishes itself by pairing a structured performance-measurement framework with a DuPont-style analysis and BCG’s TBR calculation to translate shareholder-value concepts into actionable metrics. It ships practical deliverables such as an MVA calculation template, an EP framework, a CFROI tool, and a Diageo case study that demonstrates real-world application. This resource is most useful for corporate executives, financial analysts, and strategy teams tasked with aligning incentives and capital allocation with value creation during planning and investment reviews. [Learn more]
25-slide PowerPoint
$29.00
$29.00, 25-slides, Best for: HR and OD teams running diagnostic-led engagement assessments and converting survey findings into action plans
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck distinguishes itself by centering an actionable Employee Engagement Scorecard that segments engagement into 5 measurable dimensions—Satisfaction, Identification, Commitment, Loyalty, and Performance—and by including practical slide templates you can drop into your presentations. It’s noted as having been tested in more than 75 companies across 3 continents, offering a field-validated approach to translating survey findings into targeted improvement plans. The resource is especially valuable for HR and OD teams conducting diagnostic assessments and for leaders looking to anchor engagement initiatives to business outcomes during strategy sessions and workshops. [Learn more]
23-slide PowerPoint
$29.00
$29.00, 23-slides, Best for: Executives and consultants aligning strategy to measurable targets and investor communications via a Balanced Scorecard
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out by foregrounding the dual internal-external lens of performance measurement, showing how strategy is operationalized internally while also shaping market expectations through investor communications via the Balanced Scorecard. It highlights ten non-financial performance measures, including innovativeness, quality of major processes, and research leadership, and emphasizes cascading the corporate scorecard down to align individuals with strategic objectives. Ultimately it serves executives and strategy teams who need a practical framework to link cause-and-effect decisions to both earnings potential and market signals, making it useful for guiding performance discussions and reporting. [Learn more]
241-slide PowerPoint
$79.00
$79.00, 241-slides, Best for: Strategy and operations leaders launching a benchmarking project using the Xerox process to set targets.
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out by anchoring benchmarking initiatives in the Xerox Four-phase, Ten-step process, pairing target-setting with concrete project governance rather than mere theoretical discussion. It grounds practical work in Robert C. Camp's Xerox Benchmarking Process and adds actionable elements such as a Benchmarking Site Visit Etiquette and a Toll-gate Review checklist. The guidance is most useful for strategy and operations teams launching benchmarking programs that must be tightly aligned to corporate goals and translated into concrete actions from data collection through improvement tracking. [Learn more]
43-slide PowerPoint
$59.99
$59.99, 43-slides, Best for: Executives and finance leaders shaping value-driven KPIs, cascading metrics, and a best-practice controlling function during strategic planning.
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out for its top-down ROIC-tree approach to identifying value drivers, a concrete model that helps pinpoint the key financial KPIs from the outset. Built with detailed slide notes and practical deliverables, it guides cascading KPIs and strengthens the controlling function, making it especially useful for executives and finance leaders during strategic planning. [Learn more]
85-slide PowerPoint, Word
$49.00
$49.00, 85-slides + supplemental tools, Best for: Executives and transformation leads implementing Baldrige performance excellence and preparing for site visits.
EDITOR'S REVIEW
This deck stands out by presenting the Baldrige Criteria as an organization-wide system for performance improvement rather than a stand-alone award guide. It includes a Self-Analysis Worksheet as a supplemental document, plus templates for scoring, feedback, and an action plan to operationalize gaps. This resource is most useful for executives and transformation leads during Baldrige alignment, assessments, and site-visit preparation, supporting training and strategic planning efforts. [Learn more]
Leading Indicators Versus Lagging Indicators
Lagging indicators measure past outcomes. Revenue, profit, customer churn. They tell you the score after the game ends. Leading Indicators predict future outcomes. Sales pipeline velocity, employee engagement scores, new product feature adoption. They signal whether future results are on track before they materialize.
Effective measurement systems balance both. A lagging indicator alone creates blindness. You know you missed targets but have no time to correct. A leading indicator alone creates false confidence. High engagement scores predict good performance only if your engagement survey measures the behaviors that drive business results.
The trap is assuming correlation equals causation. If employee engagement and revenue growth both increased in 2023, that doesn't prove engagement drove growth. Other factors changed too. Measurement discipline requires asking what mechanism links the indicator to the outcome. Metric definition frameworks available on Flevy help teams establish rigor in identifying leading indicators that actually predict business outcomes.
Attribution and Measurement Validity
Attribution answers the question: Which performance change came from which action? If revenue increased 15% after you launched a pricing campaign, did the campaign drive 15% of the gain or just 2%? Without attribution, you cannot learn whether past strategies deserve replication or abandonment.
Valid measurement requires clear data source, consistent collection method, and transparent assumptions. If you measure customer satisfaction via survey, your validity depends on response rate, survey design, and whether respondents represent your customer base. If response rates drop to 10%, the metric loses validity.
Flevy's Performance Measurement frameworks guide teams through the process of defining metrics that are actionable, valid, and linked to decision-making, preventing the proliferation of vanity metrics.
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