Talk:Performance measurement/Archives/2012

This began as a paper or report - for school?

For the record, this deleted paragraph gives some idea as to the origin of this article:

This paper explores the purposes and challenges of performance measurement, and consolidates some of the best practises and guidelines raised by researchers. However, we must keep in mind that the work is far from completion. With each new research effort, methodological issues are reconsidered, richer data become available, and the findings become more defensible and robust. Management scholars will build effectively on one another’s work and continue to make progress in the search for excellence.

--SueHay 02:24, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

This article is absolutely ruined with fluffy marketing words that are completely incomprehensible. Is there any meaningful content at all? Chaparral2J (talk) 02:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

There are several grammatical mistakes, and allusions to unknown references. This article needs to be either scrapped or heavily re-edited. As318 (talk) 01:30, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Unproductive critics

Deleting is a lazy task. Fluffy critcs is not better in evidence than fluffy writing. Is school nowadays a cuss word? Where is the improvement on crticisms to text as found? Who on Earth shall perform the work if not the critics contribute their precious better knowledge? However, performance measurement is just another metaphor for a complex problem to apply a metrics on a complex system and to deliver a plausible model for determining its capability to prevail. There will be no direct equivalent to describe such complextity without stimulating contradiction to features. The critics on essay style is not valid as some of the cited sources pürovide published and undoubtedly accepted. Calm down or write your contribution.Wireless friend (talk) 07:54, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree that this article could be improved. I believe that performance measurement is a broad topic, that covers many general areas as well in addition to the specific/technical information that currently exists in the article. Wireless friend, it is in fact important that Wikipedia articles don't sound like essays - it is one of Wikipedia's guidelines. However you are right that essays can be good foundations for articles. More worrying though is that some of this article seems to be directly copied from other sources of the web without references. (See for example the first paragraph on this page which is copied verbatim in this article. I have therefore added two tags to the article that invite people to help improve the article and will try to come back soon to help with this endeavour. One good source of basic information on this topic appear here - it starts with a very general introduction which could be used (but not copied verbatim) to begin improving this article. Cheers, JenLouise (talk) 05:47, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

In fact I have added a couple of sentences as a lead paragraph myself, and removed the following paragraph which does adequately introduced the topic. (In fact it doesn't even make sense to me.)

Performance measurement with a process is the complement to process execution. Based on measured performance, the feedback control loop may be closed. The metrics to assess performance is set according to a determined econometric model. The expected best result is quantitative or at least qualitative confirmation that operations support specifically defined organizational objectives.

If it is considered to be important information it should be reinserted into an appropriate place in the article (not the introduction) with enough context for it to make sense to the average reader. Cheers, JenLouise (talk) 05:58, 9 December 2011 (UTC)