Sport Management and the Winter Olympic Games: Vancouver 2010
What can we associate Olympic Games with, and what is the importance and place of the Olympic Games among other sport competitions?
Posts Tagged ‘Performance Measurement’
Measuring company profitability with the Berry ratio
Companies use profitability ratios in order to measures their ability to generate returns through effective allocation and use of available resources. KPIs in this area have often as main component profit or return. One of the most popular profitability ratios is the Berry ratio.
Measuring Supply Chain Management Performance
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole (Mentzer et al, 2001).
When marketing meets finance: the break-even level of sales
In a previous blog post we investigated the Return on Marketing Investment, a metric that analyzes the marketing activity from a financial point of view that is more complex than the revenue from sales generated by marketing. The current blog post aims at exploring another area where finance meets marketing: the break-even analysis. In this area, we consider that finance actually needs marketing: the break-even analysis aims at determining from which point on (i.e. volume of sales), a business begins to generate profits.
Measuring Knowledge Management success
Organizations from different domains make significant investments, in terms of time and money, in Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives. The purpose of these initiatives is most of the times to facilitate and enable the capture, transfer and management of the knowledge available in the organizations.
