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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In business, measurement is half-way to performance improvement. Assessing supplier performance is a difficult task. This article overviews price, cost and quality supplier performance measurement ...

The selection of specific measures of infrastructure performance is central to the assessment process. The committee recommends that measures be used that span the three broad dimensions of ...

Performance measurement is central to the promise of better care, better health and lower cost that alternative payment models (APMs) seek to deliver. As US health care moves increasingly towards ...

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 ...

We suggest that there are four types of health equity performance measures: data infrastructure, process and outcome measures stratified by subpopulation, process and outcomes measures targeted at ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...