In the spirit of transparency, the Office of Management and Budget has opened agency IT performance metrics that it has kept private in the past. OMB published metrics for the first quarter of fiscal ...

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it “metric fixation.” The key components ...

To meet these business challenges, we have set some critical success factors for IT at Reed Elsevier, which our projects must contribute to. These are the development of demonstrably superior external ...

Buying unnecessary inventory costs your business money. Conversely, inadequate inventory can lose sales. Accountants and analysts have developed a number of metrics for judging how efficiently your ...

Performance measurement is, admittedly, a tricky subject. On one hand, you must manage your operations and decisions by the numbers. But on the other hand, your employees are people–and people can be ...

Outdoor events and the race season are moving into full swing here in Austin after the onset and continuation of some wonderful weather. Even athletes who are not planning to compete are honing their ...

A Once-Popular Performance Metric May Be Returning – and It Has Implications for Executive Pay EVA (Economic Value Added) may be making a comeback as a performance measure for companies, and this ...