He said that for companies in the natural resources and mining sectors, like Alcoa, safety is a key performance metric for senior execs.
How about choosing a performance metric that ACTUALLY reflects company performance?
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Rather than dwell on the old performance metric of speed, Otellini, in his first Intel Developer Forum speech as CEO, focused on power consumption and heat dissipation of semiconductors.
If you consider that performance suffers when health suffers then a genetic test can been seen as a kind of metric used to improve performance.
This is the metric that tracks the performance of stores that have been opened at least one year.
The lowly ranked Customer Lifetime Value metric is often an overlooked but very valuable metric for aligning the performance of various groups across an organization.
In addition to the foregoing, we respectfully advise the Staff that several similar subscription services, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter, do not report churn, indicating that investors do not necessarily consider churn an important metric for measuring the performance of a subscription business.
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This strikes me as the best way to evaluate this idea and leads us to ask the same question about personalized genomics that the quantified self movement asks about every other metric: will it improve performance.
The churn metric is a less relevant and reliable measure of business performance, and does not accurately reflect consumer acceptance of our service.
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Industry group, in general, as an indicator of business model, has the strongest influence on performance metrics used, with size and valuation premiums having little impact on metric selection.
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We consider non-GAAP international revenues as a useful metric as it facilitates management's internal comparison to our historical performance.
Performance advertising, on the other hand, is measured and paid based on some metric of success: a click, a purchase, etc.
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Of course, even as a means to evaluate the relative performance of a league's top sides, it's the kind of metric that needs to be taken with inevitable caveats.
The company was also asked by the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove an unusual accounting metric, dubbed Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income, which painted a more robust picture of its performance.
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Net operating earnings is among the most basic definitions of performance for a publicly-traded company, but it turns out that just betting on businesses that grow that metric the fastest is not the safest or most lucrative way to approach the market.
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Keep in mind though that so-called economic net income is a metric used primarily by private equity firms like KKR, Carlyle and others which they say better reflects their performance.
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