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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"key performance indicator"”.
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Unit Hours as a Key Performance Indicator
… of Boeing’s plants, a tool was built to track a key performance indicator based on labor hours. Boeing's measurement of labor hours will capture delays due to part shortages, additional work hours required to complete rework, improper clocking, unbalanced workloads, overtime and any other delays …
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Key Performance indicator disclosures by large UK private and public listed companies.
This study aims to investigate the degree of compliance by large UK private and public listed companies with the Companies Act 2006 section 417 (6) requirement to disclose KPIs in their annual reports. Specifically, the study investigates the extent of KPI disclosures by 410 UK companies comprising …
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Analysing the proposed communication protocol for multi-brand truck platooning in Europe
… level of road safety. Considering the protocol performance from the application layer perspective, we evaluate how effective the protocol fulfills the requirements of the controller. By doing that, we additionally provide a key performance indicator to measure how well the protocol ensures …
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Characterization of Mobile Web Quality of Experience using a non-intrusive, context-aware, mobile-to-cloud system approach
… In fact, MWQoE can be considered an important key performance indicator showing the technology acceptance or satisfiability of customers for a specific web product or service.
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Transição para um novo centro de distribuição logístico em uma indústria de confecção
… Center and its basic functions, layout and performance indicators. As result it was mapped the current logistics processes, contributing directly to the development of the layout of the new Distribution Center. Have also been established KPI,s ( Key Performance Indicator) and Logistics …
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Closing the gap between information and payment flows in a digital transformation
… thesis recommends measuring putaway time as a key performance indicator and establishing a two duty-day key performance standard, which would hypothetically lead to a reduced rate of loss. With respect to the post goods receipt process, it was found that a failure to confirm goods receipt led …
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Hard or soft skills? : how the Erasmus plus project leaders view the relative importance of skills when it comes to conducting their projects
… with the use of focused soft skills KPIs (key performance indicator) to support the evaluation of project success. Given the complexity of defining, measuring and self-rating soft skills, this paper also points strongly to a need to research further the role of soft skills in the E+ …
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Investigating the alignment between EMF and the strategic planning context
… strategic planning documents. Each document and key performance indicator (KPI) are rated as either fully aligned, partially aligned, or as having no alignment with the EMF. The study found that EMF generally aligned poorly with the strategic planning context, especially at the national sphere. …
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Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis
Waiting times for elective surgery constitute a key performance indicator for the NHS. The principal policy response has been to introduce maximum waiting time targets against which performance is measured and rewarded. The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the mechanism of patients’ …
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The effects of safety culture on project performance in high risk industries
… accidents from taking place. Since safety is a key performance indicator in these high-risk industries, and projects are undertaken to improve the overall performance of such organizations, the role which safety culture has on project performance would be of interest. This study investigates how …
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Inventory redistribution optimization in the fast fashion industry
… complex network of thousands of Zara stores. The key performance indicator was an increase in profit of at least three percent. The research process was first to identify the key decision-making criteria and variables affecting transfer decisions; second to use that criteria to build an …
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Using analytics to improve delivery performance
Delivery Precision is a key performance indicator that measures Nike's ability to deliver product to the customer in full and on time. The objective of the six-month internship was to quantify areas in the supply chain where the most opportunities reside in improving delivery precision. The Nike …
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The extent and drivers of perishable food waste in the retail supply chain industry of South Africa.
… Retail organisations should make food waste a key performance indicator and use the predictive model to focus on specific drivers of food waste to facilitate improved waste management practice. This study contributes towards supply chain management literature by showing that food waste …
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Leading and managing change- Improving the progression and retention of nursing students
… leaders in Health and Social Care education, a key performance indicator is to ensure that recruitment to pre-registration nursing courses achieves an ever-increasing target as a response to government policy and that student progression is maintained. This mixed methods research project …
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A measure of sustainability in the context of urban water management in South Africa
… a sustainability framework to identify suitable key indicators for the index, as well as those which link with existing regulatory measurement initiatives in the South African water sector. The hypothesis was that if a city improves its scores on all of its indicators over a period of time, there …
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The impact of performance-related pay on employees’ performance: case studies of Omani public and private sector organisations
Performance-related pay (PRP) has witnessed growing interest over the past two decades in Oman, alongside increasing attention to human resource management (HRM) practices. However, despite its continued adoption in various cultural contexts, gaps in its effectiveness remain the subject of …
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Visual Feedback Stabilisation of a Cart Inverted Pendulum A
… accuracy and resting oscillation. For each key performance indicator, our system was found to be superior in many cases to that found in the literature. The thesis also delivers a complete test software environment, where vision-based algorithms can be evaluated. This environment includes a …
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Project performance diagnostics : a model for assessing construction project performance in Nigeria
… Projects are notorious for demonstrating poor performance and under achievement as usually indicated by project objectives. Project managers in the construction industry are faced with many research suggestions in literatures to improve performance but there are confusion in the implementation …
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Designing an Operations Performance Management System – A case-study of a leading global automotive parts supplier
… research focuses on a contemporary Operations Performance Management System (OPMS) designed for a leading global automotive parts supplier. It synthesises an integrated and holistic OPMS to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the automotive parts supplier to ultimately improve …
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Assessing the effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment as a safeguard to biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa
… quality of biodiversity-related information is a Key Performance Indicator analysis, whereby the performance of cases is measured against legal and best-practice reporting principles. The substantive outcomes of EIA have been investigated by means of site inspections and interviews with key …
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