Get the opportunity to grow your influence by giving your products or services prime exposure with Performance Magazine.
If you are interested in advertising with Performance Magazine, leave your address below or contact us at: [email protected].
Green Bay saves money by going green with green fonts
An excellent example of going green and saving money is provided by the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. In order to reduce campus printing costs, their Computing and Information Technology Department had the initiative to change their preferred font from the most commonly used one – Arial to the Century Gothic font.
The Center for Performance Measurement from the International City-County Management Association (ICMA) published in 2008 the book intitled „What Works: How Local Governments Have Made the Leap from Measurement to Management”.
This resource from ICMA is directed towards helping local public administrations to deal with and improve their performance measurement initiatives, by putting under the reader’s attention no less than 70 case studies featuring successful practices in the field of performance management and measurement, all coming from ICMA members.
According to a new press release from Statistics Netherlands, “in the period 1997–2007 real expenditure by subsidized educational institutes increased by 9 billion euro, from 20 to 29 billion euro. Some 3.2 billion euro can be attributed to changes in demography and participation in education, and 5.8 billion euro to increased spending per participant” (Statistics Netherlands, 2010).
Performance measurement and reporting for control is not the sole purpose of tracking results against targets. One of its very important dimensions is that of enhancing accountability towards stakeholders; in private-owned organizations, reporting is directed mostly to shareholders and managers, whereas in governmental institutions, communication is directed towards the entire community served.
In a recent press release, the Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced that New York City’s four year high school graduation rate rose to all time high of 63 % in 2009.
Copyright © 2004-2018 The KPI Institute Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved | Terms of use | Privacy Statement | Cookie Policy
