Mr Riseley said the regulator would instead focus on quality of service through measuring performance.
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Finally, we need to develop new ways of benchmarking and measuring performance outcomes that are highly subjective.
There he had instigated a management revolution, introducing such radical (for New York) changes as budgeting, setting goals and measuring performance.
This is not the appropriate way of measuring performance for individual clients.
The discussion highlighted the need for both measuring performance of teachers and students but also for innovation that creates enthusiasm for teaching and learning.
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Finally, measuring performance (ROI) closes the loop and ensures value creation.
In improving the human condition, Bill Gates wrote in his 2013 Annual Letter of how quantifying goals and measuring performance are increasingly necessary in eradicating disease.
In this new focus on error-free medicine, hospitals are dropping age-old assumptions that their doctors are doing a good job and instead are measuring performance and issuing report cards.
Because while TSR does a good job of measuring performance outcomes for shareholders, it does not do a good job of signaling to plan participants how to deliver those outcomes.
Companies use salaries and raises to retain their high performers, but measuring performance itself is difficult, especially in fields that defy simple metrics like widgets built or customer-service calls answered.
Measuring performance and paying differentially are solid steps forward.
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In terms of teachers, how we measure performance -- as I said before, I have been a critic of measuring performance just by the administering of a single high-stakes standardized test during the year, and then the teacher is judged.
In another example, we worked with a company that was measuring its performance against six peer companies.
Measuring individual performance is hard in private equity, because as virtually every firm is quick to say, it tends to be a team effort.
By measuring the performance ratio, power plant owners and operators can immediately and fully predict the performance of the plant over its lifetime, accurately assessing the value of the plant.
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Since October, a team of Federal Agencies and Departments, led by DOE, has been working hard to refine methods for measuring energy performance and ways to communicate this information effectively to consumers.
But testing is the easy answer, and politicians are going to gravitate toward the easy answer first and toward the many other better and more nuanced methods of measuring teacher performance later if at all.
School report cards could bring a better and fairer way of measuring school performance, although it is interesting to note that there are currently no proposals for report cards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - where league tables are no loner published.
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Measuring average stockmarket performance, however, may obscure the most important details.
Designed for measuring the gaming performance of everything from tablets and notebooks to high-end desktop gaming systems, the next 3DMark for Windows will be the world's first unified graphics benchmark allowing testing of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 capable hardware through the DirectX 11 API.
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Mr Spear said the "obsession" with measuring pupils' academic performance ignored the other needs - social and emotional - of children.
Sharpe, a professor emeritus at Stanford, invented the Sharpe Ratio for measuring the risk-adjusted performance of investments.
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We will only work with corporations and NGOs that are committed to measuring and reporting on their performance.
It's important to ensure that we get results, and so we will create a strong and transparent system for measuring each country's performance.
However, the tech cycles were much deeper than the general economic cycles, and as a result, the company was really measuring relative volatility, not performance.
HSBC's unusually detailed pay disclosures showed that in a scorecard measuring various aspects of his performance, he achieved full marks on rebuilding the bank's capital position, hitting dividend payout targets and pursuing stated strategic goals.
Performance per watt is a way of measuring not just how fast a computer can grind data, but also how much power it uses when doing so.
Of course determining the way to best measure the performance of employees based upon accomplishment is more challenging than measuring hours on the job, but well worth the effort.
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