More and more, organizations are increasing the focus on the environment, in the idea of reducing their footprint and protecting the climate. A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture has designed a dashboard to monitor how much energy employees use at work.
For the report Performance Management in 2013, The KPI Institute conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with practitioners, academics and consultants from 18 countries, who offered a detailed image of Performance Management as a discipline in the analyzed year.
An important editorial rule followed in the development of the content is that a discipline can only evolve through the combined efforts of practitioners, academics and consultants. Paolo Panza, Performance Manager at Ericsson Network Services, Italy was one of the practitioners that The KPI Institute interviewed.
The San Diego Regional Quality of Life Dashboard was initiated in 2009 by the Equinox Center, an independent, not profit research and policy center that helps the San Diego region achieve a more prosperous economy and improve the quality of life of its residents.
The importance of data in the business field is no longer a secret. However, recently, data has become a crucial aspect for sports, as well. In rugby, for instance, it helps teams in recruiting players, forecasting injuries before they occur and even deciding on the game tactics.
Tipping is a common social norm and voluntary practice in the US and not only, meant to reward someone for performing a service, especially a good one. In their recent article on the best and worst tippers in the US, Roberto A. Ferdman and Davis Yanofsky give an insight into the trends of tipping throughout the US in the food and beverage sector and, more specifically, in coffee shops, food trucks and restaurants.