The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities for Economics – Business subjects

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 19, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

After having presented in a previous blog post the overall results of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2010 released by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,  we focus on the subject narrow ranking for Economics / Business.

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The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 17, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has released the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Harvard University remains on the first place for the eight time, whereas other seven US universities (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, Columbia and Chicago) are in top 10 (Center for World-Class Universities, 2010):

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Marketing Performance Management tools

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on August 9, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

Marketing has been for some time one of the core organizational functions. Especially in today’s competitive global economy, the marketing capability is vital for success.  As a result, Marketing Performance Management is gaining importance on marketers’ agendas, from both improvement and accountability perspectives.

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The Quest for Quality and Improved Performance – an initiative of The Health Foundation

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on July 20, 2010. Posted in Articles, Organisational performance

The Health Foundation, the independent charity working to achieve high quality healthcare for people in the UK, has celebrated this year the conclusion of one of their main research programs: Quest for Quality and Improved Performance (QQUIP).

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Enterprise Performance Management – State of the art

Written by Aurel Brudan on July 6, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Organisational performance

Performance Management is one of the most dynamic business disciplines today. Its evolution accelerated over the last 20 years and due to the large number of concepts it employs and unstructured body of knowledge, having a comprehensive view of the current state of  its  evolution is rather challenging.  One way of achieving this is by monitoring the pulse of the discipline as reflected in studies and survey reports covering performance management topics (Brudan, 2010).

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