When Kaplan and Norton’s second book, The Strategy Focused Organization was published, the Harvard Business Review hailed the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as one of the most significant contributions to management practice in the last 75 years. However, despite its well-publicized successes, many organizations that adopt a scorecard still fail to achieve the rewards they expect.
First, what is Google Analytics all about? The core activity of the site is that of monitoring how many visitors a website receives, by providing elaborate statistics. It also provides a great number of tools to choose from when customizing a website. Moreover, the platform can turn out to be even more valuable for those users who have display ads and want to know exactly how popular they are.
Which employers are the best in the world? Obviously, this information is of great interest for both employees and potential employees, as for companies themselves because attracting, hiring and retaining the best people – one of the top priorities for today’s organizations – depend on the company’s image. Therefore, employer studies are conducted in order to inform all the categories in their matter of interest, whether it’s an unemployed person that tries to choose between two or more companies or a company interested on how it is perceived on the labor market.
People are driven by ambition and this means that they want to become better at what they do as time passes. In order to be the best at something, you have to start by monitoring your performance and then find ways to improve it. But the key is the measurement: you have to know what to improve, meaning you have to set goals and then attain them, one by one.
Recently, we have posted a top containing the best universities in the world for the academic year 2012-2013. The universities were chosen in terms of academic performance, research, innovation degree and staff, a very complex process involving performance indicators being set in place. I figured I would post an update of the top, given the fact that another year has passed and that the data have been collected. However, the top did not change that much, except the fact that Harvard got its leading position back. So, I decided to post a top of universities … by reputation. But what would be the difference between these two tops? Isn’t reputation a “sum-up word” for those mentioned above?