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You’re evaluating your own performance. What’s the best way to measure success?

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As a product R&D professional, you know that your work is crucial for creating innovative and valuable solutions for your customers. But how do you assess your own performance and progress? How do you know if you are meeting your goals and delivering quality results? In this article, we will explore some of the best ways to measure your success and improve your skills in product R&D.

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1 Define your objectives

Before you can evaluate your performance, you need to have clear and specific objectives for your product R&D projects. These objectives should align with your organization's vision, mission, and strategy, as well as the needs and expectations of your customers. You should also make sure that your objectives are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. By defining your objectives, you can set a clear direction and scope for your product R&D efforts, and establish a baseline for measuring your outcomes.

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Prakash Menon

Energy & Utility Industry Principal at HCL Technologies
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Any research and development type work requires a performance framework, which is aligned to its vision and goals. While defining our performance objectives for an R&D project, I pay attention in outlining specific goals and targets for the research and development work, each one of my teams and my performance. We then spend time in establishing measurable outcomes, which may include; creating a new product, improving an existing process, or advancing scientific knowledge in a particular area. This has helped me in measuring my own performance at the sametime support my teams in achieving theirs. It has helped me all the time in establishing a roadmap for progress, guiding the team towards successful completion of the R&D work.

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2 Choose your metrics

Once you have your objectives, you need to choose the appropriate metrics to track and measure your performance. Metrics are quantifiable indicators that show how well you are achieving your objectives. Depending on your product R&D domain, you may use different types of metrics such as input metrics, which measure the resources and efforts invested in product R&D projects; process metrics, which measure the efficiency and effectiveness of product R&D processes; and output metrics, which measure the results and outcomes of product R&D projects. It's important to select the metrics that are most relevant and meaningful for your product R&D objectives, so that you can evaluate your performance objectively and accurately.

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Ashwin Chawwla

CEO TrustMore??HQ - Building World’s Largest Trust Ecosystem for Financial Transactions. Jumeirah Emirates Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai
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Measuring self performance can be gauged on how well you have balanced everything in your journey. Balancing life, family and work is the biggest achievement for self.

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3 Collect and analyze data

After choosing your metrics, you need to collect and analyze the data that reflects your performance. You can use various sources and methods to gather data, such as surveys, interviews, tests, observations, feedback, analytics, etc. You should also use reliable and valid tools and techniques to analyze the data, such as statistics, graphs, charts, dashboards, etc. By collecting and analyzing data, you can gain insights and evidence about your performance and identify your strengths and weaknesses.

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Ratnesh Kumar Thakur

Scaling HR Tech Products from 0 to 1 ?? | Turning Conversations into Impactful Solutions ??
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Once metrics are selected, gathering and analyzing relevant data is essential for performance evaluation. Utilize diverse sources like surveys, interviews, and analytics, ensuring reliability and validity. Employ robust analytical tools such as statistics and dashboards to derive insights, pinpoint strengths, and uncover areas for improvement. This systematic approach provides evidence-based insights into your performance landscape.

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4 Compare and benchmark

Measuring success can be done by comparing and benchmarking performance against other standards and references. Self-comparison involves analyzing current performance in relation to past performance, while peer-comparison looks at the performance of other product R&D professionals with similar roles. Additionally, industry-comparison examines the performance of other product R&D organizations or teams in the same or related markets. By doing these comparisons and benchmarks, you can assess your standing in relation to others and learn from their best practices and mistakes.

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Gianluca Mandotti

Founder & General Manager |Business Partner
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Benchmarking and comparing past performance and colleagues is crucial for growth. In my experience in sectors like energy and e-mobility, learning from others by leveraging our strengths has been crucial. It is not just about understanding where we are, but how to innovate based on our experiences and values, guiding us towards efficiency and uniqueness. Benchmarking is often a starting point

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5 Set and review goals

The final step to measure your success is to set and review your goals for your product R&D projects. Goals are specific and actionable statements that describe what you want to achieve and how you will achieve it. You should set your goals based on your objectives, metrics, data, and comparisons, and make sure that they are SMART as well. You should also review your goals regularly and adjust them as needed, based on your performance and feedback. By setting and reviewing your goals, you can keep yourself motivated and focused, and track your progress and achievements.

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Ratnesh Kumar Thakur

Scaling HR Tech Products from 0 to 1 ?? | Turning Conversations into Impactful Solutions ??
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In the last stage of evaluating success, it's vital to establish and revisit your goals for product R&D projects. Goals should be clear, actionable, and aligned with your objectives, metrics, and data insights. Ensure they meet SMART criteria and regularly reassess them in light of performance and feedback. This process maintains focus, and motivation, and enables tracking of progress and accomplishments, fostering continuous improvement and goal attainment.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Mark Turkel

Founder of Palm Beach Software Design, Win-Cart.com, and RouteTrackDeliver.com. I provide consulting, coaching, and software development services ?? Founder ??CEO ??CIO ?? Author ?? Consultant ?? Business Process Expert
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The 5 previous points are obviously very important, but I think most people that have commented said the right things. What nobody has mentioned are the intangibles: your stress level, the customer's stress level, the projected budget vs reality, and your profit margin. After doing this for 37 years (and still going strong!), there's these "gut-checks" that really encompass the presenters questions of the best way to measure success. I'm always interested in long-term relationships, and it involves "feelings". It is a mistake to discount how you feel EVERY TIME. When you start dreading meetings, have trouble engaging with the same quality that you started with... that's my "red flag".

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Victor Ochoa

Key Account Manager
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I agree. The mechanics of achieving any goal are, fairly straightforward. However, no one enjoys working towards an unrealistic set of expectations. The continued success and growth of an organization is often not found on a project management chart.

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1 Define your objectives

2 Choose your metrics

3 Collect and analyze data

4 Compare and benchmark

5 Set and review goals

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