To accurately assess how well your business is performing, you need to develop some quantifiable measures, advises Skillmaker.com. Ideally, your measures will clearly identify those aspects of your ...

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it “metric fixation.” The key components ...

Business performance management is a critical component of overall business success. It allows you to evaluate the overall performance of your company and identify its strengths and weaknesses. With ...

Measuring physician performance in an ambulatory surgery center has become essential, says Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. “It is the only way we know if ...

Buying unnecessary inventory costs your business money. Conversely, inadequate inventory can lose sales. Accountants and analysts have developed a number of metrics for judging how efficiently your ...

At Insider Inc., we have been ramping up our focus on synthetic testing as an important way to test web performance. A more performant user experience translates to user satisfaction. Faster news ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Measurement matters. But it matters most if you measure what truly matters. And when it ...

Researchers are calling for a re-examination of the use of costly performance measures for physicians after finding that less than 40 percent of these metrics are valid. A study published in the New ...

A Kaiser Permanente study suggests that all-cause mortality and years-of-life-lost rates offer an overarching assessment of ...

Google has updated the Google My Business "available performance metrics" help document to talk more about the new performance reports. Google added a section for "users who viewed your profile" and ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano has agreed to have the agency’s inspector general audit SSA’s performance data and to ...