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ALSO CALLED:
Business Performance Metrics,
Sales Metrics
DEFINITION: A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access
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Business Metrics White Papers
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Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009
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It's Time to "Go Commando"
sponsored by Birst
WHITE PAPER:
Commando teams carefully plan and execute to reduce risk and achieve success. Read this sales survival guide to learn how to - and why you should - adopt this philosophy and the main factors to focus on that will ensure your sales organization not only survives 2009 but comes out of it successfully.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Building a Best-Run Finance Organization
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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SAP NETWEAVER BPM - Industry Trend Reports
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009
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Intelligent Metrics Ensures Success
sponsored by IFS
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Read how GED Integrated Solutions went through the process of identifying and implementing metrics to drive its business process improvement program in 2002 and has since learned many important lessons in how to track and leverage business metrics to improve operational performance.
Posted: 01 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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BUSINESS METRICS DEFINITION (continued): … A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Systematic approaches, such as the balanced scorecard methodology, can be employed to transform an organization's mission statement and business strategy into specific and quantifiable goals, and to monitor the organization's performance in terms of achieving those goals. |
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