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Business Metrics

Understanding business metrics as key performance indicators (KPIs) is a key part of business strategy and management. In this assignment, you will look at financial performance measures.

Financial performance measures are vitally important to assessing corporate performance. However, financial measures are primarily backward looking in that they measure the results of past actions, and do not always give a reliable indication of future direction.

Using the below module, readings online library resources and the Internet, respond to the following:

· For your own organization, give three examples of key performance indicators (KPIs) and how they are measured that are forward looking and more predictive.

· What aspect of the value chain are they measuring?

· How do these measures tie to specific strategies in your business unit?

Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

· Required Readings

· Becher, J. D. (2005). Operational alignment: Bridging the gap between strategy and execution.Business Performance Management Magazine, 3(1), 11. (ProQuest Document ID: 218383095)

http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/218383095?accountid=3

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· Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2007). Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system. Harvard Business Review, 85(7/8), 150–161. (ProQuest Document ID: 227841808) 

http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/227841808?accountid=34899

· Zagotta, R., & Robinson, D. (2002). Keys to successful strategy execution. The Journal of Business Strategy, 23(1), 30–34. (ProQuest Document ID: 202724421) 

http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/202724421?accountid=34899

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Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explained with examples forward-looking performance measures and the corresponding strategies of the business unit.		4
Actively contributed to the discussion by providing points of view with rationale, challenging points of the discussion, or drawing relationships between points of the discussion.	12
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Total:	20