The purpose of performance measurement is to help organizations understand how decision-making processes or practices led to success or failure in the past and how that understanding can lead to ...

Not many CIOs would cite Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane as their role model. But one of Bill Kirkendale's favorite books is Michael Lewis' Moneyball, which describes how Beane, with limited ...

To accurately assess how well your business is performing, you need to develop some quantifiable measures, advises Skillmaker.com. Ideally, your measures will clearly identify those aspects of your ...

As they say, you manage what you measure. Accordingly, an entire industry has developed around performance measurement and performance management. Popular tools include the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Project management tools have evolved into central operating systems for modern organizations. Once limited to tracking tasks and deadlines, today’s platforms support planning, financial oversight, ...

Decentralized companies spread responsibility to different levels of management rather than focusing decision-making power at the top. Because responsibility is spread so widely in a decentralized ...

Improve management of the portfolio of IT projects and promote team collaboration with TeamPlay IT project management software suite from Primavera Systems Inc. The suite integrates project and ...

Recent revelations that employees at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals falsified performance data on patient-appointment wait times in order to receive larger bonuses have turned the ...

In the technology industry, competition remains fierce for talent. As companies struggle to usher in top talent, some turn to outsourced tech firms and independent contractors to get work completed.

The National Research Council (NRC) completed a planned 3-year review and assessment of the U.S. Department of Energy’ s project management with publication of Progress in Improving Project Management ...