Measuring Success is a growing consulting firm dedicated to creating quantitative performance measurement tools to aid nonprofit managers and boards enhance their organizational effectiveness. Measuring Success was started 3 years ago and grew out of work at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg Business School, and the Kennedy School, as well as its founder's experience at McKinsey & Company and as Director of Strategy for a national non-profit organization. Measuring Success focuses on national, networked non-profit organizations, and among other clients is currently working on projects with several Jewish organizations.
The Peer YardstickTM
Measuring Success' core methodology is the Peer YardstickTM. Non-profit organizations must create an "early warning system" to detect problems by tracking measurable indicators of organizational health. The Peer YardstickTM creates a dashboard for non-profits showing how they compare to their peers on key drivers of organizational performance. The dashboard can be used proactively by non-profits to identify the gaps between current performance and excellence. The tool also enables managers to work effectively and efficiently by giving them quantitative tools to more rapidly align non-profit stakeholders, thereby reducing time spent in strategy (since key issues and goals will already be identified quantitatively by the dashboard), and increasing managers' availability for implementing change toward excellence...+More
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