Method of achieving health agency aims through a performance management dashboard

A management method to achieve organizational aims, comprising:

• listing organizational aims;
• determining one or more goals to meet in order to reach each of said organizational aims;
• defining one or more performance measures each having numeric year to date measure data to measure attainment of each of said goals in a twelve month period;
• describing why each of said performance measures was chosen for measuring attainment of said goal;
• naming person or personnel position responsible for ensuring entry and update of said year to date measure data for each of said performance measures;
• specifying frequency of said entry and said update of said year to date measure data for each of performance measures within said twelve month period;
• labeling said year to date measure data with an appropriate unit of measure;
• stating a source from which said year to date measure data is to be collected;
• demarcating an annual target and a red line target for each of said year to date measure data for said twelve month period;
• entering said year to date measure data in said twelve month period to create entered year to date measure data for each of said performance measures;
• updating said year to date measure data in said twelve month period to create updated year to date measure data for each of the performance measures;
• calculating a progression of each of said entered year to date measure data and/or said updated year to date measure data in relation to said annual target and said red line target;
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• displaying said progression of each of said entered year to date measure data and/or updated year to date measure data over said twelve month period.