Quarterly objectives · The measure per objective · Element
The reading
How often the measure is read during the quarter.
The part
What it is
A measure read only at quarter end provides no chance to act. Reading it monthly is usually the minimum that makes the quarter correctable.
Too frequent is also a failure mode: a weekly reading of a slow indicator produces noise that people learn to ignore.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the measure per objective
The indicator
The single measure that decides whether the objective was met.
LearnThe baseline
Where the measure stood when the quarter began.
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