Measuring Success

Measuring Success
Author: Jack Buckley
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421424967

"Once touted as the single best way to measure students from diverse backgrounds, schools, and experiences, standardized college admissions tests are now criticized for being hopelessly biased in favor of traditionally privileged groups. Out of this has emerged the test-optional movement that seeks to allow students to apply to schools without sitting through the rigors of the SAT. This book takes a step back and applies rigorous empirical measurements to these rival claims. Drawing upon the expertise of higher education researchers, admissions officers, enrollment managers, and policy professionals, this edited volume is among the first to investigate the research and policy implications of test-optional practices. It was conceived in response to the editors' frustration with the fragmented and incomplete state of the literature around the contemporary debate on college admissions testing. Many students, teachers, parents, policymakers--frankly, nearly anyone immediately outside the testing industry and college admissions--have little understanding of how admissions tests are used. This lack of transparency has often fueled beliefs that college assessments are biased, misused, or overused. Decades of research on various aspects of testing, such as the predictive validity of assessments, makes a compelling case for their value. But all-too-frequently researchers and admissions officers talk past one another instead of engaging substantively. This collection intends to remedy the situation by bringing these disparate voices together. This book is designed for provosts, enrollment managers, and college admissions officers seeking to strike the proper balance between uniformity and fairness"--

How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)

How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Author: Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633692574

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Measuring Success

Measuring Success
Author: Jack Buckley
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421424975

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Measuring Success

Measuring Success
Author: Greg Brisendine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781795242073

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are indispensable for measuring business, but if they don't serve a larger mission, it's easy to lose sight of why you're measuring in the first place. Tracking the dynamic relationship between mission and measurement, this book is logical, approachable, and filled with relatable anecdotes. Greg Brisendine has provided strategic and measurement consulting to Fortune 100 companies and to small startups. In all cases, he starts by finding out what's important to those leaders. From there, he maps a path to their KPIs. That mission-driven approach is what he brings to this book. Measuring Success is an indispensable tool for anyone with the ambition to affect change - from new managers to seasoned leaders.

Transforming Performance Measurement

Transforming Performance Measurement
Author: Dean Spitzer
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-02-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814430090

Performance improvement thought leader Dean Spitzer explains why performance measurement should be less about calculations and analysis and more about the crucial social factors that determine how well the measurements get used. Transforming Performance Measurement presents a breakthrough approach that will not only significantly reduce those dysfunctions, but also promote alignment with business strategy, maximize cross-enterprise integration, and help everyone to work collaboratively to drive value throughout your organization. Spitzer’s "socialization of measurement" process focuses on learning and improvement from measurement, and on the importance of asking such questions as: How well do our measures reflect our business model? How successfully are they driving our strategy? What should we be measuring and not measuring? Are the right people having the right measurement discussions? Performance measurement is a dynamic process that calls for an awareness of the balance necessary between seemingly disparate ideas: the technical and the social aspects of performance measurement. This book gives you assessment tools to gauge where you are now and a roadmap for moving, with little or no disruption, to a more "transformational" and mature measurement system. The book also provides 34 TMAPs, Transformational Measurement Action Plans, which suggest both well-accepted and "emergent" measures (in areas such as marketing, human resources, customer service, knowledge management, productivity, information technology, research and development, costing, and more) that you can use right away. Transforming Performance Measurement tells you not only what to measure, but how to do it -- and in what context -- to make a truly transformational difference in your enterprise.

Measuring and Improving Social Impacts

Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
Author: Marc J. Epstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351276220

Identifying, measuring and improving social impact is a significant challenge for corporate and private foundations, charities, NGOs and corporations. How best to balance possible social and environmental benefits (and costs) against one another? How does one bring clarity to multiple possibilities and opportunities? Based on years of work and new field studies from around the globe, the authors have written a book for managers that is grounded in the best academic and managerial research.It is a practical guide that describes the steps needed for identifying, measuring and improving social impact. This approach is useful in maximizing the impact of different types of investments, including grants and donations, impact investments, and commercial investments.With numerous examples of actual organizational approaches, research into more than fifty organizations, and extensive practical guidance and best practices, Measuring and Improving Social Impacts fills a critical gap.

Assessing War

Assessing War
Author: Leo J. Blanken
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626162476

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation. In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics. This group of distinguished authors grapples with both conventional and irregular wars and emerging aspects of conflict—such as cyberwar and nation building—that add to the complexities of the modern threat environment. The volume ends with recommendations for practitioners on best approaches while offering sobering conclusions about the challenges of assessing war without politicization or self-delusion. Covering conflicts from the eighteenth century to today, Assessing War blends focused advice and a uniquely broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare's past—and its future. The book includes a foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (USA, Ret.), former chief of staff of the US Army and former commander, Multi-National Force–Iraq.

Measuring Success As Jesus Did

Measuring Success As Jesus Did
Author: Randy Southern
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1998-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780781455350

and • Emphasizes the value of heavenly treasures over material goods and • Cautions students against "gaining the world but losing their soul" and • Presents the biblical concept that "the last shall be first" Finally a small group discipleship study that meets your teens where they are. With options for seven different types of groups, discipleship tips, reproducible handouts, and more, you now have the freedom to customize your small group lessons. Whether your students are new Christians, advanced learners, full of adrenaline, or anything in between, this series is your tool to help them grow to be more like Jesus. Each book includes four sessions plus an experiential learning session that will take youth to the next level--the commitment of the heart and the knowledge of the mind become the actions of the hands.

Measuring Success in Substance Use Grant Programs

Measuring Success in Substance Use Grant Programs
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309675286

The opioid epidemic, now several decades in the making, continues to cause pain and suffering for millions of Americans. Each year, thousands of individuals die from overdose, and thousands more grieve from these losses. Opioid use disorder (OUD) can lead to a complete interruption of day-to-day activities, including caring for one's family, maintaining a job or career, or keeping track of basic necessities, such as health care and finances. This report, the first in a series of three, examines four of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'s grant programs that help alleviate suffering due to opioids and improve treatment quality and access. It offers recommendations about the existing reporting tools used by these programs and and proposes additional metrics and outcomes that should be considered.