To accurately assess how well your business is performing, you need to develop some quantifiable measures, advises Skillmaker.com. Ideally, your measures will clearly identify those aspects of your ...

For some well-established industries, product lines are simply updated regularly, and product development tends to be an easy, relatively unimaginative process. For other products, however, their ...

Measuring clinical performance may have unintended beneficial effects on patients and providers beyond the direct clinical benchmarks under consideration, according to research in BMJ Quality & Safety ...

Lean process improvement is becoming a popular method for hospitals looking to streamline processes, reduce costs and improve quality. While the general principles of Lean management are increasing ...

Analytics, at its core, is leveraging data for measuring and improving business outcomes. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Basically, effectively measuring ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Oncology Practice Initiative has grown to include 973 practices as of 2010. Practices demonstrated rates of end-of-life care and other measures of ...

This article takes you through the types of measurements and tools you need to measure enterprise SSD performance. SSDs have pronounced write-history sensitivity, which means that they have unique ...

NIST is planning to update NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-55 Revision 1, Performance Measurement Guide for Information Security. For more details on an opportunity to provide input, see the Call ...