Measuring Performance
A growing business needs to keep track of its progress. The idea behind measuring progress is not just to know how your business is doing, but to see where growth is needed most.
The basic purpose of this measurement is to provide an indication of business performance that is relative to your goals. This allows you to see what goals are not being achieved and, ideally, increases your chances of achieving them efficiently. Measurement Performance measurement gains true value when used as the basis for prompt decisions.
This issue covers the vital topic of how ConceptDraw products can help you to measure various aspects of your business performance by providing you with relevant, useful information that will help improve your business profitability.
ConceptDraw Products Support Spotlight Search
CS Odessa announced the release of a new Spotlight search plug-in for ConceptDraw documents. The plug-in is available at no charge to individual and corporate customers who have the current version of ConceptDraw MINDMAP®, ConceptDraw PROJECT®, or ConceptDraw PRO®. Keep reading...
The ConceptDraw Water Cooler
Welcome to the ConceptDraw Water Cooler live seminars. All sessions are live and participates will be able to ask questions after the primary session is completed. Join us as we show you how ConceptDraw products can help you in your business. Sign up today. Keep reading...
Accelerating Strategic Planning
An Introduction to the Roadmap Strategy Process
Despite the widespread popularity of strategic planning, a majority of organizations are not satisfied with the process they employ. Traditional strategic planning suffers from a number of flaws, including the inability to succinctly define the word strategy and the lack of true strategic choice demonstrated in most plans.
By Paul R. Niven Keep reading...
When Do You Kill a Project?
The project is behind schedule. The scope and objectives are not clearly defined. There are no interim verifiable milestones to monitor progress. The project plan changes on a daily basis. The project manager has no information on what the team members are working on at any given time... Sounds familiar?
By Samuel Prasad Keep reading...
Monitoring and Controlling Remote Project Performance
The inability of project management to be in two places at once can make it difficult to monitor and maintain control of a remote project. The remote team must be given clearly defined measurement criteria. Keep reading...
Performing Electrical Engineering Services
If your business is to provide clients with various kinds of technical service, (e.g electrical engineering services), you surely meet with the necessity to convert the technical ideas into the form of measurable images — in the form of professional technical drawings. Keep reading...
Sales Standards: Do You Have Them?
Most professions have standards. Lawyers have the ABA, accountants have GAAP, doctors have the AMA, engineers have IEEE. But when it comes to sales pros, though, the standard is pretty much CACC (Catch As Catch Can).
By Geoffrey James Keep reading...
Performance Appraisals Start with Job Descriptions
Before you take the leap into performance appraisal with your team, does each role have a clear, current, and effective position description in place? Position descriptions or job descriptions are one of the most useful HR documents you can have.
By Ingrid Cliff Keep reading...
Process Measures Drive Document Management Success
Peter Drucker, the respected management consultant, once said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” When designing a document strategy, process measures provide a way to observe the performance of your document management process, uncover the problems that exist and monitor the results of your improvement efforts.
By Kevin Craine Keep reading...
Measuring and Communicating Project Performance
The Information is meat and potatoes to projects and project managers. It is very important to keep management and the project team informed of a project’s status Keep reading...