Effective project management requires a multi-faceted approach to gauge baseline performance and track improvement. A balanced scorecard is a tool designed to assist management by measuring a variety ...

The balanced scorecard approach to management was first laid out by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This broad management strategy that separates an organization's goals into quantifiable ...

Compensation of owners in a professional services firm has always been contentious. Over the years, several trends have developed based upon the size of the firm. A new trend is developing that is an ...

Data warehouse is one of the key Information Technology (IT) infrastructures. Data warehouse involves a huge financial undertaking. It is important that data warehouse performance is measured in terms ...

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Metrics, the bane and blessing of corporate citizens, emerge from this truism. Metrics allow managers to determine the efficacy of process changes and ...

No matter how much we advocate the science of marketing, its art has not disappeared. Take the balanced scorecard, for instance. In the tradition of marketing creativity, a graphical document—the ...

Monitoring employees can help with this step, but first identify specifically what needs to improve or change. This could be employees spending less time on an application or running a process more ...