When you contract to have work done for your company, you need a way to monitor and evaluate how well your contractors perform. A plan that includes measurable key performance indicators can keep you ...

In the beginning was darkness. We went to work, did our job (well or otherwise) and went home - day in and day out. We did not have to worry about targets, annual assessments, metric-driven incentives ...

A performance-based assessment evaluates employees on their output vs. their expected contribution to a business, explains Tsuru Kotaro of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. These ...

The balanced scorecard is one of the most widely used and hotly debated management tools in the executive arsenal. Although the original balanced scorecard was devised to assess the health of an ...

Over the past year, I have been covering software as a service (SaaS) firms and their stocks, and especially those that pass the Rule of 40. The Rule of 40 balances sales growth and profitability in ...