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Employee Engagement – Why Does it Matter?
Are your employees engaged and why does it even matter? Over the next five weeks, we're going to take a 'deep dive'...
What is a KPI Report?
KPI Report What is a KPI report? - How do I know if my business is succeeding? Depending on the sector you’re in, the...
What is a KPI?
What is a KPI? A KPI, or a Key Performance Indicator, is a measurable, quantifiable value which can be used to...
Strategic Facilitator – Why do you need one?
Why do you need a strategic facilitator? Every business leadership team needs to periodically extract themselves from...
How to Avoid Change Fatigue
How to avoid change fatigue - All businesses know that 'change is a constant' - but where it presents an endless...
What is a Strategic Plan?
Without a clear strategic plan, your every action simply becomes a tactic. Multiplied across your growing business and...
Creating a High Performance Culture
Creating a High Performance Culture - Peter Drucker, the legendary management guru says that 'business culture eats...
Realistic Business Objectives
Every company needs a clearly defined set of business objectives as part of its business strategy. These objectives...
Strategy for Beginners
Strategy for Beginners - Strategy is a process just like any other process. Unfortunately this simple fact is often...
Creating Useful KPIs
Creating Useful KPIs - Some Useful Checks Take a look at QuickScore the worldwide acclaimed KPI Manager. If you...
43% UK Employees Feel Undervalued
43% UK Workforce Undervalued - More than 43% of employees recently surveyed by Intrafocus in the United Kingdom feel...
The Next Big Idea
Having run 100's of strategy workshops over the years we find a set of 'core' business strategies tend to come...
Thinking Strategically
It’s coming up to the start of new fiscal year in the United Kingdom (and many other parts of the world). It’s the...
4 Good Reasons to Innovate
Innovation can be the cornerstone of business. Think of the new products that have changed their manufacturer’s...
Farms not Factories
At Intrafocus we are great supporters of the environment, sustainability and welfare. We teach it in our strategy...
What is RIDDOR?
What is RIDDOR? The following is a summary of The United Kingdom Statute Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous...
Cascading Scorecards and Automatic Value Rollup
One of the most exciting new functions added to Version 2.16 of Scoreboard and QuickScore is the ability to create a...
Alternatives to ‘Best Practice’
The phrase "best practice" comes up all the time and is often used to justify a change. Occasionally, it is used to...
Blue Ocean Strategy – Book Review
The Blue Ocean Strategy was published in 2005 and authored by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Professors at INSEAD and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. So why has it taken so long to write a review for this book? It was clear from the outset that the authors were on to something special. But only time would prove whether or not they had created a new way to look at strategy or simply repackaged existing techniques and processes.
The CEO Strategy Map
How many pieces of information can you deal with at any given time? It doesn't matter if you are Bernstein or...
Balanced Scorecard Example
Interest in the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has steadily increased over the past few years. Executives have realised that...
Focus is the future
Preview of an article from Business News June 2016 – We asked Clive Keyte, Managing Director at Intrafocus Limited to explain the phrase Focus is the Future.
Send a postcard from the future
At the start of a strategic planning project staff need to be motivated. They need to see the...
Stop chasing people for KPI data
Are you spending too much time chasing people for KPI data? Most organisations have...
Developing Key Performance Indicators
World renowned performance measure specialist, Stacey Barr, has given a four star rating to...