I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders,” by Greg Spira. Greg brings a wealth of experience based on his ...

Setting goals and objectives is a critical aspect of managing a business, and the accounting function is no exception. Business goals should include both short- and long-term goals, according to Maria ...

Performance management is an integral part of the workplace as it provides a platform for supervisors and managers to measure employee performance and determine whether employees are meeting the ...

Recently, PV-Tech took the opportunity to catch up with Erik Bentschap Knook, Chief commercial officer at Eternalsun Spire and a key partner at the forthcoming PV ModuleTech 2019 in Penang. We talked ...

Let’s say a client asks you, “What was the best-performing fund last year?” Or perhaps they want to know, “What was the performance of the S&P 500 last year?” Before answering, it would be best to ask ...

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 ...

Typical health plan data provide limited information for benchmarking physician performance using even a less stringent rule for attributing patient measures to physicians. Objective: To evaluate ...

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

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 ...

Figure 1: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith; Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, and Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Tired of anecdotal accounts of management performance? Or ...