Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm's operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm. It is the first to pres…
"Despite the complexity of the construction industry, there has been little study to date which focuses on the challenge of drawing accurate conclusions from the available data. The accuracy of industry reports has an impact on government policy, the direction and outcomes of re…
"The ultimate guide to performance management and how to avoid the often bizarre unintended consequences of KPIsThe results of well-intended performance measurement are sometimes bizarre and bewildering. World leaders in business performance, the authors of Measurement Madness h…
The CART principles : from too much and too little, to just right -- The theory of change --The CART principles -- Monitoring with the CART principles-- The CART principles for impact evaluation -- Collecting high-quality data -- Educate! --Developing a theory of change for "cha…
"Spending on M&A has, in aggregate, grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey, the leading management consultancy, reports that "Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% f…
Driving employee engagement through data analytics : helping leaders make better people decisions / Saveeta Mohanty, Xavier University, India -- Methodological considerations for research in compensation management / Jeeta Sarkar, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, India -- An analy…
"An innovative new valuation framework with truly useful economic indicators The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows how the ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lays out an actionable alternative. B…
"Earned value management (EVM) is a management methodology for integrating scope, schedule, and resources; objectively measuring project performance and progress; and forecasting project outcome. It is considered by many to be one of the most effective performance measurement an…
Team performance characterization -- Team performance prediction -- Team performance optimization -- Team performance explanation -- Human agent teaming -- Conclusion and future work. "Business operations in large organizations today involve massive, interactive, and layered ne…