@article{discovery1539957, volume = {3}, note = {This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.}, pages = {143--153}, month = {December}, number = {4}, title = {Applying a new concept for strategic performance indicators}, year = {2016}, journal = {Infrastructure Asset Management}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jinam.16.00016}, issn = {2053-0242}, abstract = {Performance measurement provides critical information for strategic decision-making about the future of national infrastructure provision. The process of developing appropriate performance indicators must be based on an understanding of the high-level desired outcomes that infrastructure systems are intended to facilitate. These outcomes may be complex and dynamic and vary across the spectrum of infrastructure stakeholders. This paper demonstrates a conceptual process for developing outcome-related performance indicators by using case studies from the UK rail and water sectors. The case studies show that the process can provide an industry-specific picture of desired outcomes across the main stakeholders, together with their dimensions and associated performance indicators (so-called partial indicators). The work highlights potential shortfalls of a sector-by-sector approach to outcome-oriented strategic performance indicators and suggests that further work is required to integrate partial indicators to provide a holistic picture that recognises the contributions often made by a variety of infrastructures to a given high-level desired outcome.}, author = {Carhart, NJ and Bouch, C and Walsh, CL and Dolan, T}, keywords = {Government infrastructure planning social impact} }