Key performance indicators help managers analyze and interpret how well their organizations function. Choosing just a few operational data points to include in a review reduces complexity. Successful ...

Founder and Managing Principal of DBP Institute. I consult companies on how to transform technology and data into a valuable business asset. Delivering successful data analytics solutions that have a ...

Effectively using data has become increasingly important in 21st century business. The ever-increasing capabilities of desktop and laptop computers along with radically decreasing data storage costs ...

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a company, department or individual is achieving key business objectives. KPIs are tracked to evaluate success ...

What KPIs do you as a marketer use? Probably revenue- and conversions-based, right? There is more to it than just that. Tom Cruise’s “Jerry Maguire” sports agent movie character famously shared a ...

Imagine your business journey is a road trip. Along the way, you have goals you’d like to meet and milestones you’d like to reach. Those details define your endeavor, ensuring you don’t forget why you ...

To ensure they are successfully driving operations toward meeting their company’s strategic goals, all business leaders need to look carefully at a variety of key performance indicators. While the ...

Measuring a supplier’s adherence to contractual service levels is at the core of supplier performance management. Yet, while every organization tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) on some level, ...

In Software Modeling Goes Mainstream, Ed Sperling recently wrote how chipmakers are applying use case modeling techniques to better understand the interactions between software and hardware and how ...

Executive teams are very familiar with using KPIs (key performance indicators) to track recent corporate success. These measures are used like school reports, providing feedback on how things went ...