Using analytics to improve performance – Lessons from sports

Written by Mihai Toma on August 1, 2014. Posted in Articles, Operational performance, Trending

“Data”, “information”, in other words “analytics”, is a term that has become almost ubiquitous in business jargon in the past years. More and more mangers, executives and analysts have begun using performance indicators to help them in their decision making process. The main problem organisations face nowadays is that they are flooded with data and the majority of them do not know how to make sense of all of it and use it to their benefit.

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Designing efficient KPI documentation forms

Written by Cristina Mihăiloaie on July 29, 2014. Posted in Articles, KPI

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Making performance data available to citizens – West Sussex County

Written by Andreea Vecerdea on July 28, 2014. Posted in Around the world, Articles, Operational performance

West Sussex County Council is the first authority in the United Kingdom that has implemented a software to provide citizens open access to its performance data. Its goal is to “help our residents lead happier, healthier, longer lives”. To ensure that its ambition will be attained, the Council has started to monitor a series of KPIs, in the three main areas of interest: children, old people and economy.

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Operational Performance, Performance Measurement and Alignment, discussed with Christoph Hoffmann, Vice Principal of EDGE Hotel School, University of Essex

Written by Denisa Călin on July 22, 2014. Posted in Multimedia, Operational performance

Given The KPI Institute’s presence at the PMA 2014 Conference, the PERFORMANCE Magazine team was able to interview some of the most highly skilled academics and practitioners in the field of Performance Management.

Christoph Hoffmann, the Vice Principal of EDGE Hotel School, at the University of Essex gave an interview, in which he discussed the need to measure operational performance and its implications for adjusting organizational strategy.

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About time, targets and performance measurement for collaborative networks with Sanna Pekkola

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on July 19, 2014. Posted in Multimedia, Organisational performance

As a result of The KPI Institute’s presence at the PMA 2014 Conference, the PERFORMANCE Magazine’s editorial team interviewed a wide range of academics and consultants in the Performance Management field. One of the interviewed academics was Sanna Pekkola, Senior Researcher at Lappeenranta University of Technology, in Finland.

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