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Measuring What Matters: Navigating the KPI Labyrinth in an Era of Information Overload
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Measuring What Matters: Navigating the KPI Labyrinth in an Era of Information Overload

Measuring What Matters: Navigating the KPI Labyrinth in an Era of Information Overload Issue 215, June 5, 2025 Let’s get to the bottom line up front: In a business environment drowning in data, the organizations that will thrive are those that master the art of strategic data curation instead of collection, asking “why” before “what,” and building KPI ecosystems that connect rather than isolate. Last week we offered advice and some philosophical thought about leading and managing in today’s whiplash…

Kevin Novak
June 5, 2025
Fake or Fact?
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The Motivation of Manipulating Data and Information to a Desired Outcome

The Motivation of Manipulating Data and Information to a Desired Outcome Issue 129, October 5, 2023 Some recent headlines have reported disturbing news about respected and respectable scholars falsifying or just ignoring data conclusions in scholarly papers. This is another example of the skepticism many of us have with the shifts in misinformation flooding our inboxes and newsfeeds, compelling each of us to exercise our critical thinking skills. And the examples we’re referring to aren’t even results of AI. It…

Kevin Novak
October 5, 2023
Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster – Ideas + Innovations from 2040
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Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Why Is Good Data Vital Currency and Bad Data a Disaster? Issue 49: March 31, 2022 We often talk about the common problem of collecting massive amounts of data without a strategy to transform it into intelligent action-oriented insights. We are all drowning in data as technology and digital interactions have allowed us to collect and store more data and offer access to it. Given the large amounts of data now at our fingertips, we need data scientists and analytical…

Kevin Novak
March 31, 2022
“if you never have a destination, you are never lost.”
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2040’s Ideas and Innovations: Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes?

Do You Measure by Outputs or Outcomes? Issue 48: March 24, 2022 How do you and your organization measure accomplishments and achievements? In an Industrial Age mindset, output was believed to be the only measure as maximizing production efficiency became something close to a religious mantra. In today’s Knowledge Age era, outcome, actually accomplishing a strategy or goal is the real measure that determines outcome not output. In a marketplace that values what an organization stands for and its effect…

Kevin Novak
March 23, 2022
Ideas + Innovations from 2040: Measuring What Matters
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Ideas + Innovations from 2040: Measuring What Matters

Measuring What Matters With the drama and disruption of the pandemic, you might think it’s time to re-evaluate your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Just look at the megatrends. Externally, customers have been affected by financial and supply chain disruption, along with revelations of new digital ways of managing day-to-day life. Many of the adaptations and changed behaviors are likely here to stay. Internally, organizations have pivoted but many remain dedicated to returning to a normal that no longer exists or…

Kevin Novak
September 2, 2021