This paper is concerned with the measurement of company performance in the context of the IBIS panel data set of large Australian firms. The analysis provides a framework which distinguishes between: ‘static,’ ‘comparative static’ and ‘dynamic’ measures; and ‘partial,’ ‘multiple’ and ‘total’ measures. The chapter demonstrates that all of these measures are related to economic measures of firm p...

NetSniff is an IP traffic analysis tool currently used in low traffic scenarios. Before deployment under higher traffic scenarios, it is important to perform a study into the processing and live capture performance of NetSniff. We have previously investigated the processing performance of NetSniff, in this technical report we subject NetSniff to a performance evaluation with regard to live capt...

This white paper describes how the sales environment has changed in response to short-term economic trends and long-term business trends. It then explains why sales organizations are failing to adapt to this changing environment and why the traditional remedies of sales technology and sales training frequently backfire. Finally, this paper describes how scientific measurement can provide a fram...

NetSniff is an IP traffic analysis tool currently used in low traffic scenarios. Before deployment under higher traffic scenarios, it is important to perform a study into the processing and live traffic capture performance of NetSniff. In this technical report we subject NetSniff to a series of processing performance evaluations in an attempt to determine the limitations of NetSniff with regard...

Measurements that capture website performance have long enabled businesses to improve strategies and operations. For an eCommerce website, there exists a limited understanding on how performance is measured. Measuring the performance of a website has been proposed in many ways and various contexts over the past decade. The study presented in this article used the owner perspective to theoretica...

Principles and applications are described for a new method for measuring the shielding performance of materials. The new method avoids the problems of common mode signal linkage to observations circuits, is fair to materials of various constructions and provides the basis for matching shielding performance to specific practical applications.

Nowadays, multithreaded architectures are becoming more and more popular. In fact, many processor vendors have already shipped processors with multithreaded features. Regardless of this push on multithreaded processors, still today there is not a clear procedure that defines how to measure the behavior of a multithreaded processor. This paper presents FAME, a new evaluation methodology aimed to...

When one undertakes a benchmarking study, it is quite typical to collect performance data on a set of business processes from a variety of organizations. While one can compare efficiency on a process-by-process level, how can one compare the overall efficiency of one organization versus another using this process-level data? This note presents a methodology that combines tournament ranking and ...