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for the failure of measurement systems – namely poor design and difficulty of implementation. Considers the measurement … implementation failure – political, infrastructural and focus and details of each of these. Suggests that the challenge for the … twenty‐first century is how to extract maximum value from our performance measurement data.  …
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Many Irish organisations have embraced business excellence and ISO 9000 as concepts to deliver sustainable quality systems. The aim of this paper is to offer perspectives on both concepts in an Irish context and see which offers the best hope of delivering and sustaining a quality system. In...
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present the underlying relationships between the various quality management constructs and between quality management and … organization performance. This research uses data from the Arizona Governor’s Quality Award, which is based on the MBNQA, to study … systems constructs, except for strategic quality planning and information management, which was not tested in the model. The …
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The Forte Hotel Group today is very different from what it was three years ago. With the arrival of Antoine Cau as new chief executive at the beginning of 1998, the company was restructured into clear non‐competing brands. In line with the brand restructuring, the company also embarked on a...
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, measurement, and management of intellectual capital. It discusses the forces driving the concern about intellectual capital and …
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1996‐2000. Second, investigates the relationship between intellectual capital performance and the extent of intellectual … not indicate a systematic relationship between intellectual capital performance and the quantity of disclosure during the … survey period. Results, however, suggest that if intellectual capital performance is too high the amount of disclosure is …
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Drucker introduced management by objectives (MBO) in the late 1950s. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced … Scorecard in the early 1990s. MBO and the Balanced Scorecard are management systems that align tangible objectives with an … organisation’s vision. This article compares and contrasts the two management systems. The examination concludes that the …
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This article introduces the balanced scorecard model from Kaplan and Norton and makes a proposition about its application on communications by showing the case of the Corporate Relations & Communications division of Siemens Corporation in Argentina.
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, against which performance is then monitored and published. To provide further feedback, a management and an executive …The ability to define and measure standards of performance and the quality of service is crucial to the effectiveness …
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Performance improvement is high on the agenda of many companies around the world and with the growing number of … small number of categories of key performance metrics to focus on. Here, they are examined from a critical perspective with … match between a company and a performance measurement framework and that further research should concentrate on how to …
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