Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social ...

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 ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

What do C-suite executives, supervisors, and managers of teams of all sizes all have in common? A fixation on metrics. Derived from company strategy and overarching goals, metrics are by far the most ...

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 ...

As they say, you manage what you measure. Accordingly, an entire industry has developed around performance measurement and performance management. Popular tools include the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Performance measurement is, admittedly, a tricky subject. On one hand, you must manage your operations and decisions by the numbers. But on the other hand, your employees are people–and people can be ...

Let’s say the CEO of your company asks you a simple question: "How are we doing?" Your answer, of course, depends on your department. If you lead sales, you’ll show pipeline and revenue growth. If you ...

About 50% of business data is now stored in the cloud – and the volume stored using cloud technologies is higher still when private and hybrid clouds are factored in. Cloud storage is flexible and ...

Pay attention to in-depth incident metrics, make adjustments to your safety practices accordingly, and you won’t have to worry as much about your TCIR rate. Each year, with the advancement of data ...