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Zombies will do Wonders for Your Motivation

2 February, 2013 by James Lawther 10 Comments

I have just wasted 2 weeks of my life playing “Plants versus Zombies”, the worlds most foolish computer game.  The premise is at best dubious, I grow plants in my garden and these protect my house from an onslaught of brain eating zombies, yet I am totally addicted. I’m 44 years old, I should know […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: competence, flow, focus, motivation, video, zombies

Zombies and KPI’s

20 May, 2011 by Bernie Smith 1 Comment

DIY KPIs

I subscribe to quite a few performance measurement emails, web sites and blogs.  I’ve noticed a worrying trend of sites offering “off the shelf” KPIs.  In fact you can now buy books packed with “ideal” KPIs for all sorts of businesses (oh, how the long winter nights must fly by). Are the measures in these […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: best practice, clarity, customer focus, key performance indicators, measurement, service improvement, strategy, zombies

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