Companies strive to decrease costs by improving performance with their available resources. This leads to the need for measuring performance through strategic measurement systems, based on tools like balanced scorecards, key performance indicators or dashboards. But with measuring performance there comes a questions: what guidelines should be used when defining and using metrics in order to avoid mistakes that seriously impair the usefulness of these tools?
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
An important editorial rule followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. José Francisco Rezende, Associate Professor at Unigranrio University, Brazil that The KPI Institute interviewed.
The misery index is an economic indicator that is calculated by adding the inflation rate to the unemployment rate. The rationale behind this calculus is that a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation mean economic and social costs for a country and imply a deterioration in economic performance.
Management now spreads at any level one may care to account for. From the company’s global destination, to managing each individual’s course, today we can keep track, monitor and have a firm clasp on the processes subsumed to organizational progress.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
An important editorial rule followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Teresita Villanueva, Managing Director at TAV Systems, Inc., Philippines was one of the consultants that The KPI Institute interviewed.
