Castrol Edge penalty analysis. Players will have to think from now on twice, before taking a penalty!

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on July 4, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

In a previous blog post we have presented a new Castrol football application, the World Cup Predictor. Using performance data from every international match played by the World Cup 2010 participating teams in the last ten years and simulating the tournament more than 100 000 times, to minimize the error rate as much as possible, the Castrol team of performance analysts calculated each team’s chances of progression through the competition.

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Investment bankers views on the 2010 World Cup South Africa – The World Cup and Economics 2010

Written by Denisa Călin on June 15, 2010. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Individual Performance

The 2010 report on the The World Cup and Economics was recently released by the Global Investment Research Division of Goldman Sachs. Besides forecasting football scores and rankings, the report presents an analysis regarding the correlation with other types of indicators within the World Cup context.

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Performance Management case study: Balancing on-time service and pay-for-performance in urban public transport

Written by Aurel Brudan on May 7, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Individual Performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 18/2010

Delivering urban public transportation services today is a challenge due to the slow process of upgrading infrastructure and the general trend of population increase in large cities.

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An introduction to theory in Performance Management: Agency theory and its link to pay for performance arrangements

Written by Aurel Brudan on April 2, 2010. Posted in Editorials, Individual Performance

smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 13/2010

Agency theory has its origins in the research conducted by economists in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring risk sharing among individuals and groups, such as the relationship between insurers and customers.

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Employee Engagement Index

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on March 3, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

In the last decade Employee Engagement has become a hot topic both in academic literature and in practice. The debate goes mostly around the implications that employee engagement can have on the success and bottom line of a company (Sacks, 2006).

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