Performance metrics are designed to improve results, but they often change employee behavior in unexpected ways. Learn how to ...

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As AI continues to influence and reshape enterprise operations, chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT leaders are under increasing pressure to quantify the value AI delivers. But productivity ...

You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

People analytics or employee metrics are ubiquitous in today’s digital-first, data-driven business environment. The trend isn’t new, but it picked up speed in the past year as a range of challenges, ...

The conversation about AI and enterprise productivity has drifted into a peculiar place. Organizations that spent years refining outcome-based performance frameworks are now, in some cases, reverting ...

Setting employee and team performance goals is an essential responsibility for business owners and managers. However, measuring and improving an employee’s performance can be complex and daunting, ...

With the rise of AI-generated code, development teams must become smarter about how they conduct code reviews, apply security tests, and automate their testing. Imagine a world where measuring ...

Here’s a little bit of snark from developer John Crickett on X: Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity. Also software engineers: I’m now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1,800 commits ...

Economists warn that Australia’s productivity is lagging on the global stage, ranking second last among OECD countries, better only than Mexico. Historically, we rate poorly in terms of remuneration, ...