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 ...

Six Sigma provides a framework for measuring process performance and making improvements to better meet customer needs. Although full-scale Six Sigma implementations are usually limited to large ...

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 ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. November 9, 2006—The growth of RFID implementation activity in areas such as asset management and tracking and maintenance, repair and overhaul ...

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 ...

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 ...

The committee developed an agenda for basic research to maximize the efficiency, accuracy, and effective use of human capability measurement in the military’s selection and initial occupational ...

There’s a lot of talk in business development circles about the importance of optimizing performance. After all, isn’t it necessary to achieve the highest levels of performance — whether that ...

In my last article, I discussed the three kinds of asset performance metrics. Using this knowledge, the next step is to establish your own asset performance management process. While the scale and ...

How do you measure process work? First introduced in the 19th and early 20th centuries, time and motion studies established rules of motion that guaranteed optimal performance during a given period ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Incubator provides a platform for the development of patient-reported outcome performance measures in palliative cancer care, which is essential to ...