If you ever catch yourself thinking you’ll never be successful, guess what? You most probably never will! Greatness comes from effort, but also from attitude and a different, “outside the box” way of thinking, combined with self-consciousness and a healthy lifestyle.
Presently, each company has a well-documented and developed benefits and compensations system which has proven definitely necessary for an organization. But is it enough? Should companies stop here? Benefits and compensations systems are either general, applicable to all employees or exclusive to the ones meeting predefined criteria. Most involve remuneration or products and services that can easily be quantified in a certain amount of money.
W. L. Gore & Associates is recognized as a strong innovative company that has its focus on areas like electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical products. Gore employees count more than 10,000 people, called associates, worldwide.
UPM is a company activating in the field of renewable and recyclable materials, having as vision to lead “the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future.” For 2013, the organization has established a set of targets, in order to attain progress in its key areas of responsibility. Rich insights on how UPM manages organizational performance can be gained from analyzing their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the previous year.
“Data”, “information”, in other words “analytics”, is a term that has become almost ubiquitous in business jargon in the past years. More and more mangers, executives and analysts have begun using performance indicators to help them in their decision making process. The main problem organisations face nowadays is that they are flooded with data and the majority of them do not know how to make sense of all of it and use it to their benefit.