Tracking Performance

In addition, budget holders are often reluctant to make the savings transparent, as this will inevitably create massive pressure from top management to exclude these savings in the next budget round. 

In addition to measuring financial aspects, it is important to set up a system to track other key elements ensuring full value delivery, to continuously follow up both on key performance indicators (for example, number of suppliers, quality of performance, etc.) and on whether actions have been followed through and milestones fulfilled. 

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A plan is more than a list of goals, a bar chart, or a schedule of activities. For the business plan to be effective it needs to define how the measures it covers are to be achieved and the resources to achieve them obtained. There may well be supplementary plans for this purpose. The plan or plans also need to define who is to be responsible for achieving the goals and implementing the plans. Once this is done and the provisions communicated to those affected, a method of tracking achievement can be put in place. To track performance effectively the implementation of the plan needs to be phased such that target dates are set for the determination and acquisition of resources, the issue of detail implementation plans, the organization of work, and the completion of individual tasks. 

We refrain here from giving detailed descriptions of the experiments. Their outcome suggests that, in the presence of clutter, the tracking performance can be improved with multiple step ahead scheduling as opposed to one step ahead. The results are represented in Figures 2 and 3. One observes that for two steps ahead the tracking accuracy is improved, albeit slightly, while the number of times the track had to be... 

Fig. 6. (a) Set-point tracking performance of the TOC concentration when the RGA-AW is applied (S - dashed line, St, gray line and St- black line), (b) Dynamical response of the manipulated variable (black line Q calculated by the control law and gray line Q measured at the entrance of the digester). 

A key lesson for The Home Depot over the past ten years has been the need to pay close attention to tracking performance along multiple dimensions. We now have many more metrics - and much more granular ones - in place than we did in the early years, allowing us to respond to competitive trends and address customer service issues more quickly. 

Figures 5.4 to 5.7 show the simulation results. It can be recognized that satisfactory temperature tracking performance (Fig. 5.4) are achieved in all cases, with similar...

Adopting new technologies to manage information and to track performance... 

The CEO and board members interact frequently with each unit, using hard-wired systems to track performance, and spending a significant amount of their time on this activity. 

Master and short-term itemized schedules and the discipline of tracking performance and making the contractors live up to their projections, especially the short-term ones. If a contractor cannot meet the goals of a short-term schedule, it will never meet the long-range schedules. The Project Manager has to take immediate action ... 

This is the basic philosophy detailed in the CCPS Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (CCPS, 2007a). Focus more priority on improving the elements that apply to the process areas with the highest potential process safety risk. Logically, more metrics (in addition to a base set of key metrics applied to all sites) will likely be used to track performance for those operations with the highest potential process safety risk. 

While the use of centralized data management systems and dashboard displays are generally for internal purposes, companies and organization may one day develop public dashboards that would allow external stakeholders to track performance. 

It many years since process modelling become an advanced tool for design work in most companies. Process plant model objectives include to provide a comprehensive report of materials and energy streams, determine the correlation between process units, study the formation and separation of byproducts and impurities, support preventive maintain by tracking performance of key equipment over time and its relation to the buildup of impurities. 

Penetar, D. M., Beatrice, E. S. (1986). Effects of atropine on human pursuit tracking performances. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 57, 654-658. 

Barba CA Stamper DA, Penetar DM et al. (1987). The effects of the Ml 7A2 mask on human pursuit tracking performance. Report No. 250. San Francisco, CA, USA Letterman Army Institute of Research. 

Good setpoint tracking performance should be attained. 

The conclusion that a task and a PR are unrelated for a particular group does not, of course, mean that this can necessarily be extrapolated to some other group. For example, strength may be completely uncorrelated with tracking performance in normal males yet be the primary factor responsible for poor tracking performance by the paretic arm of subjects who have suffered a stroke. 

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