{
  "title": "Project management: when a metric distracts from the objective",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-quand-un-indicateur-detourne-de-objectif-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-12-25",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A numerical target can mobilise a team without ensuring that the result is useful. Research invites us to distinguish measured performance from the project's purpose.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Project Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: directing attention also narrows it",
      "point": "Lisa D."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that metrics should be abandoned; these publications do not warrant that conclusion."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence and dashboards cannot settle",
      "point": "These publications do not directly evaluate project dashboards in Lausanne, and the second does not provide a single estimate of the effect of goals."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "In Lausanne, whether for a medtech project, a higher education collaboration, an initiative serving international sport or a rollout by a Lake Geneva region scale-up, record a production target and an acceptance criterion that the recipient can verify before the next review."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Bazerman",
      "year": "2009",
      "source": "Academy of Management Perspectives"
    }
  ],
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