Performance Measurement: Challenges for Tomorrow*

Performance measurement: roles and challenges

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the past and present practices, and the future roles of performance measurement in the Thai public sector. It is part of a transformation effort initiated by the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC) on m-government – more mobile, responsive, and flexible government. The paper also aims to identify possible roadblocks from s...

RTY-Based Model for Organizational Performance Measurement

    Six sigma,   Rolled throughput yield, Organizational performance Six Sigma is a well- established approach to improve the capability of business processes in order to gain satisfaction of customers. The performance assessment of a given process is essential to some phases of six sigma methodology. So far, different indicators are used to demonstrate the performance of a process, while many ...

Dynamic memory management: challenges for today and tomorrow

Garbage collection is a key component of almost all modern programming languages. The advent of conventional object-oriented languages supported by managed run-times (e.g. Java, C♯ and even Managed C++) has brought garbage collection into the mainstream and, as memory manager performance is critical for many large applications, brought it to the attention of programmers outside its traditional ...

Performance measurement for community health services: opportunities and challenges.

This paper presents findings from a study that investigated performance measurement for primary health care services delivered by the community health sector, and assessed the effectiveness and value of a performance measurement approach in the evaluation of these services. Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in South Australia. The findings indicate that thre...

Paediatrics in The Netherlands: challenges for today and tomorrow.