You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

The technology industry’s love of buzzwords is no secret. The pursuit of the “next big thing” means that every year a new spat of words enters the lexicon. Big data. The internet of things. Digital ...

The key in measuring productivity is determining what should be measured. For fulfillment processes this means assessing job functions and the appropriate parameters associated with each. You may want ...

Sometime over the past eighteen months, the newness and novelty of remote work wore off as the everyday elements just became normal. But as Zoom meetings and team virtual happy hours seeped into ...

While employers remain concerned about remote work’s impact on employee productivity, many employers do not measure or reward productivity — and some that do largely leave it up to manager discretion, ...

You've been measuring productivity for a long time. You know what it means; you know what it looks like. It's time to look a little deeper. For many manufacturers, these questions would be answered by ...

Peter Martin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Improving labor productivity is one of the biggest challenges for the hospitality industry. Earlier research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found restaurants operating at 74 to 78 ...

As the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) evolves, the need to demonstrate productivity becomes more important. Productivity data provides NPs with practice statistics to generate business or use in ...

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Can we measure developer productivity?” In it, I discussed the many objective attempts that had been made to do it — lines of code, function points, etc ...

One of the first questions that arises is how to fairly compensate all of the physicians in the group. Many groups opt to pay the specialty physician or the more experienced physician more than they ...

While the government has clearly stated its belief that productivity matters, greatly, for both rebuilding growth in the ...