Performance Master Quotes

“Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“A balanced scoreboard needs to provide the balanced view of business progress; perhaps it also has the “unbalanced” nature to do prioritization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization’s competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and high mature digital organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The “self-driven” talent performance management is pursuing the digital way to run a purpose-driven organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Measure thinker performance and doer performance differently but objectively.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Every measure selected should be part of a link of cause-and-effect relationships, and ultimately affect the growth and long-term perspectives of the organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“A dashboard needs to be light, focus on “K” in KPIs.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The scoreboard is strategy focused, and the dashboard is operation oriented.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance

“You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.”
― Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance