Barnaby S. Donlon is the principal and director of Corporate Practice Management at Palladium Group, Inc.

Good Data, Good Decisions
March 13, 2008 Comparatively little attention is paid to building managers’ capability to analyze data and turn it into decisions

Performance Analysis: Connect Good Data to Good Decisions
February 20, 2008 Data has become the lifeblood of running a business. Whether using a balanced scorecard or an operational dashboard as the...

Setting the Right Stretch Targets
February 14, 2008 The challenge is to set the bar high enough without adversely affecting workforce morale or behavior

Setting the Right Stretch Targets
January 3, 2008 Target setting, is equally important to and no less challenging than measure development to support an effective performance...

Uncovering Unwritten Rules
November 29, 2007 Unwritten rules are not good or bad per se, but can either allow or prevent organizational change

Selecting Performance Measures
November 29, 2007 Many organizations are struggling to implement useful metrics.

Uncover and Deal with Unwritten Rules
November 2, 2007 The changes desired by leaders are often in conflict with their organization’s unwritten rules.

Designing Next-Generation Dashboards
October 1, 2007 Next-generation dashboards leverage the complete power of rich user interfaces, the ability to use multiple data sources, fast...

Best-Practice Analytic Architecture to Support Business Strategy
September 1, 2007

The Strategy-Focused IT Organization, Part I
June 1, 2007

Barriers to Leveraging Information Assets for Strategy
May 1, 2007

Effective Leadership Behavior for Strategy Review Meetings
April 9, 2007 Establishing the right meeting behavior is a critical ingredient to success

Improve Your Management Meetings
April 9, 2007 Ways to improve your management meetings

Effective Leadership Behavior for Strategy Review Meetings
April 1, 2007

Improve Your Management Meetings
March 17, 2007 Make your meetings worthwhile