current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0263-7472.htm Performance measurement in facilities management: driving innovation? Michael Pitt and Matthew Tucker School of the Built Environment‚ Liverpool John Moores University‚ Liverpool‚ UK Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to examine the state of knowledge of performance measurement in facilities management‚ in particular regarding the concepts underlying benchmarking in relation to its ability to
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Performance Measurement in a Modern Business Environment________________________________________ In the past‚ performance measures were primarily based on financial measures (Bruns‚ 1998) where the double entry accounting systems was used to avoid disputes and settle trades between traders (Johnson‚ 1983). As businesses began to grow‚ their nature and structure also began to change‚ reducing the control and the close relationship that existed between the owners and management. Consequently‚ the
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1.0 Introduction Performance measurement is essential to improve the performance of the organizations to compete in today’s business environment. In the era of industry way back in the 1960’s‚ the traditional performance measurement system has been designed to report labour productivity‚ machine and capacity utilization‚ and standard cost variances. These are cost-efficiency-based measures derived from a strategy to minimize production costs‚ described as a cost leadership strategy. (usefulness
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Analytical measurement: measurement uncertainty and statistics Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva‚ Ewa Bulska‚ Beata Godlewska-Żyłkiewicz‚ Martina Hedrich‚ Nineta Majcen‚ Bertil Magnusson‚ Snježana Marinčić‚ Ioannis Papadakis‚ Marina Patriarca‚ Emilia Vassileva‚ Philip Taylor Editors: Nineta Majcen‚ Vaidotas Gegevičius Joint Research Centre Analytical measurement: measurement uncertainty and statistics Editors: Nineta Majcen Vaidotas Gegevičius Authors: Ricardo Bettencourt da
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Huawei‚ a telecommunication equipment provider has consolidated its advantaged position in Telecom Networks‚ and continued to create value for customer and fulfilled customer needs through its products and solutions. Even with soft economy condition in 2010‚ Huawei still manage to achieve sales revenue of “CNY 185.2 billion‚ a year-on-year increase of 24.2%.”1 Besides contribution from its customer-centric approach and dedicated employee‚ the major achievements actually come from continuous improvement
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performance. One way of doing that is through performance management. Performance management is a continuous process of communicating and clarifying an employee’s responsibilities‚ priorities and expectations to ensure mutual understanding‚ thereby adding value to the organization and individual by promoting skills and career development‚ providing frequent feedback and nurturing teamwork ( Bautista and Jackson 3 ). Upon research the results showed that technology‚ employee’s attitude‚ management’s strategic
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Developing value Value- good quality at a fair price Total product offer – everything consumers evaluate when deciding weather to buy something Product differentiation – the creation of real or perceived product differences Convenience goods and services – products consumers purchase frequently with minimal effort. Shopping goods and services – products consumer buy only after comparing values and quality Specialty goods and services – products with unique characteristics and brand identify
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such as religion‚ ethnicity‚ major in college or gender. In fact‚ with nominal variables measurement means: classifying cases in (unordered) groups. (A group can have a single member‚ as it is the case with SSN.) The groups must be --- all-inclusive: they must cover all cases --- mutually exclusive: each case must belong to one and only one group A nominal level variable that can take only two values (yes/no‚ male/female‚ Hungarian/non-Hungarian) is called a dichotomy. ORDINAL LEVEL Numbers
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Principles of Measurement (International) For Works of Construction JUNE 1979 Published by RICS Business Services Limited‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors‚ under the RICS Books imprint‚ Surveyor Court Westwood Business Park Coventry‚ CV4 8JE UK No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any material included in this publication can be accepted by the authors‚ publisher or The Royal Institution
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Measurement in Science Jackie Science 110 Mr. Denslow December 15‚ 2013 Measurement in Science Direct There are 3 direct problems with astronomy. Examples are‚ charting and mapping difficulties‚ military range finding targets‚ and gauging distances to any solar object. A researcher cannot measure something directly if it is not in the grasp of his devices. In which‚ a scientist will have to use geometry to find his answers. However‚ there are boundaries to
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