The most successful entrepreneurs are proactive, not reactive. Not only do they set strategic goals, but they also track their results using a variety of business performance measures. Also referred ...

Goal-based performance appraisal techniques use quantitative performance management indicators to determine how well an employee is performing against the group, or against goals set by management.

Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

The selection of specific measures of infrastructure performance is central to the assessment process. The committee recommends that measures be used that span the three broad dimensions of ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

In business, measurement is half-way to performance improvement. Assessing supplier performance is a difficult task. This article overviews price, cost and quality supplier performance measurement ...

About 50% of business data is now stored in the cloud – and the volume stored using cloud technologies is higher still when private and hybrid clouds are factored in. Cloud storage is flexible and ...

Quality measures (QMs) are performance tools for health plans and clinicians that are intended to assess and influence the quality and quantity of delivered health care. When QMs are thoughtfully ...