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 ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

Business performance management is a critical component of overall business success. It allows you to evaluate the overall performance of your company and identify its strengths and weaknesses. With ...

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 ...

Current metrics used to compare the performance of storage systems are inadequate. The industry needs a new storage performance metric that is fair, broadly applicable and intuitive. In this article I ...

As leaders plan for the year ahead, nonfinancial metrics offer the clearest signal of whether growth is truly sustainable.

In 2011, the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program began paying physicians and hospitals for the measurement and reporting of performance metrics through the utilization of ...

Local-government leaders need to strategically balance and utilize the metrics of performance management to create sustainable and resilient communities. Nowhere is that more true than in policing, ...

Measuring physician performance in an ambulatory surgery center has become essential, says Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. “It is the only way we know if ...

Pay attention to in-depth incident metrics, make adjustments to your safety practices accordingly, and you won’t have to worry as much about your TCIR rate. Each year, with the advancement of data ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have issued new performance and quality measures for the treatment of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI, abandoning some ...