The purpose of performance measurement is to help organizations understand how decision-making processes or practices led to success or failure in the past and how that understanding can lead to ...

Many companies—even those with in-house tech teams—sometimes outsource tech development when project loads are heavy or a particular skill that’s needed isn't present among the staff. Outsourcing does ...

Few concepts have swept public-administration circles like performance management has. But as the saying goes, you can't manage what you don't measure. While many governments say they're committed to ...

Understanding how to measure a project's success allows you to make more informed decisions and establish strategic, measurable business goals. Most project management metrics fall into one of four ...

Performance management starts before the employee even reports to work on his first day -- it begins during the recruitment and selection process and continues throughout the employment relationship.

Every person and organization has some familiarity with performance metrics and reporting, yet how to take that experience and apply it to asset management is not straightforward. Looking at industry ...

It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Boston-based writer, speaker, and advisor on innovation and change. Measuring innovation is one of the most vexed problems that a ...

Effectively using data has become increasingly important in 21st century business. The ever-increasing capabilities of desktop and laptop computers along with radically decreasing data storage costs ...

Management theory and practice have long established a link between effective performance measures and effective management (Drucker, 1995). The effectiveness of any given performance measure depends ...