Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Measurement matters. But it matters most if you measure what truly matters. And when it ...

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 ...

A Once-Popular Performance Metric May Be Returning – and It Has Implications for Executive Pay EVA (Economic Value Added) may be making a comeback as a performance measure for companies, and this ...

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 ...

Delivering efficient and optimised storage performance for virtual environments can be difficult to achieve because so many components in the infrastructure stack must interact. But optimum storage ...

Assessing any investment in storage is a question of balancing cost, performance and capacity. We look at some of the most useful storage performance metrics – capacity; throughput and read/write; ...

Through literature review and collaborative design, we propose the Focus, Activity, Statistic, Scale type, and Reference (FASStR) framework to provide a systematic approach to health care operation ...

Measuring physician performance in an ambulatory surgery center has become essential, says Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. “It is the only way we know if ...