Patients deserve transparent measures of quality in healthcare, but a lack of standards and auditing for these measures can do more to misinform consumers than guide their choices, according to ...

Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

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’s difficult to accurately measure the performance of maintenance workers because there are so many variables. Consider what happens if you reduce performance measurement to merely counting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

The word "performance" is widely used in many contexts. When applied to infrastructure, the word generally is understood to mean supplying clean water, moving people and goods from one point to ...

Measuring the performance of real-time digital signal processing code is essential. But whether you're using a simulator or hardware, it can be a headache to get accurate, repeatable performance ...

When a manager can accurately measure his organization's performance, he is able to identify deficiencies in the organization and correct them. When the deficiencies are dealt with efficiently, then ...

CANNES, France—Relo Metrics and VideoAmp have officially launched Total Sports Performance, a measurement and attribution solution for the sports media ecosystem. Total Sports Performance delivers the ...

As Lord Kelvin almost said, “To measure is to know.” But this simple dictum is surprisingly hard to follow. For it really has two meanings. The first meaning is obvious: You cannot really know about ...