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 ...

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 ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Of course you like them; you hired them. And of course you're rooting for them – they work on your behalf every day. If your small business is like many others, you run a tightly knit operation that ...

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 ...

About 50% of business data is now stored in the cloud – and the volume stored using cloud technologies is higher still when private and hybrid clouds are factored in. Cloud storage is flexible and ...