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.
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.
Negative side effects produced by the target-setting process include a rise in unethical behavior, a practice whose incidence has increased recently times. Unethical behavior, according to The KPI Institute, represents the process of influencing results through unapproved means in order to ensure target achievement.
At the beginning of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, speculations were, as always, intense about who is going to win, this time around. As the most important sporting event in the football world was about to start, the sheer number of global audiences it gathers was bound to lead to a vast array of biased or unbiased predictions for its final outcome. Needless to say, it most definitely did.
Throughout the years, the healthcare industry has become increasingly more complex due to technological and medical evolution and, as a result, it is characterized today by an overwhelming amount of information. Therefore, hospitals require an efficient information system that will enable the proper management of all these requirements.
