Pharma industry performance metrics: 2007–2012E

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Comparing Supply Chain Performance Metrics with Organizational Excellence Performance Metrics

AMR Research has published a list of the Top 25 Supply Chains for the past few years. These companies and the AMR criteria provide excellent examples for exploring supply chain performance metrics. The NIST publications on the Baldrige Award winners and more recent publications on the success of Six Sigma programs are benchmark examples for organizational excellence performance metrics. Perform...

Software quality metrics aggregation in industry

With the growing need for quality assessment of entire software systems in the industry, new issues are emerging. First, because most software quality metrics are defined at the level of individual software components, there is a need for aggregation methods to summarize the results at the system level. Second, because a software evaluation requires the use of different metrics, with possibly w...

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On Correlating Performance Metrics

Performance metrics and their measurements are the basis of identifying and addressing computer performance related issues, from monitoring to capacity planning. IT professionals and performance analysts often face the questions of what metrics to look at, whether those metrics are related, and how to group them in meaningful way for further analysis, e.g., workload characterization. In this pa...