The most successful entrepreneurs are proactive, not reactive. Not only do they set strategic goals, but they also track their results using a variety of business performance measures. Also referred ...

Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

In global hiring, that shift is transformative. Companies with consistent metrics unlock wider talent pools because they can ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Of course you like them; you hired them. And of course you're rooting for them – they work on your behalf every day. If your small business is like many others, you run a tightly knit operation that ...

A new method overcomes many of the limitations of existing hydrocarbons benchmarking practices and addresses the need for a single and precise measurement of operational performance that can be ...

As some blog readers will recall, I regularly read a number of academic journals with articles relevant to public management, and sometimes blog about them to share the findings. I am particularly ...

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...