Sentences with phrase «measure of progress of»

«The way that trade unions, including the ITU, are treated, and whether they are permitted to operate freely and independently without government interference provides a critical measure of progress of the conditions that exist for ordinary people.

The review also says more data should be published to give a rounded picture of a school's performance, including new measures of the progress of lower - attaining pupils.

Not exact matches

According to a Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Report, fewer than half of all companies in the Harvard survey said they measured employee progress toward a goal.

While Japan has made progress on economic participation and opportunity for women — one of the report's four gender equality measures — it's seen a reversal in women's political empowerment.

We used to consider total number of deals in the pipeline as a standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor of monthly and quarterly numbers.

In a panel discussion in Silicon Valley Saturday, however, Musk took a more measured tone on AI, encouraging members of the audience to think about how to prevent it from progressing along a potentially apocalyptic path.

(Note: multifactor productivity, or MFP, is commonly seen as measure of technical progress — the increase in output that can not be explained by the accumulation of labour and capital inputs.

The progress we will experience in the next five to 10 years will definitely out - measure that of the last five to 10 years.

«Accordingly, policymakers and citizens alike would benefit from having an alternative, or at least complementary, bottom - line metric that measures the level and rate of improvement in shared socioeconomic progress.»

One way that ANN, Inc. — the parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT stores — measures success is through a set of metrics that evaluates progress toward goals.

The only way we can achieve this kind of insight and transparency on our progress is to avidly measure our daily tasks.

It's not about trying to implement the latest desperate attempt in a long, sad series of stopgap measures that simply adds complexity to the current code base and impedes any real progress.

Keeping the global community safe is an important part of our mission — and an important part of how we'll measure our progress going forward.

Though most firms have pages proclaiming the importance of diversity to their culture and success, only one out of every five companies provides any information to show that they're measuring their progress.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

If you are looking to make a difference in the lives of at - risk children, how would you measure progress?

For a number of reasons, however, the official measure is an unreliable guide to trends in poverty since 1970 and significantly understates progress in reducing poverty since then.

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on «validated learning,» rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

«MOFCOM will follow the progress closely and will be prepared to take necessary measures at any time to safeguard the legitimate interests of Chinese enterprises,» the agency said in a statement on its website.

Since non-cash and tax - based benefits constitute a much larger part of the safety net than 50 years ago, the official poverty measure's exclusion of these benefits masks progress in reducing poverty.

In the example of retirement planning, a CFP ® professional can be tasked with measuring the client's progress saving for retirement.

A solid plan reassures them about the competence of the entrepreneur and provides an objective yardstick for measuring progress and testing initial assumptions.

While everyone knows that the number of female investing partners is very limited, we aimed to establish a well - defined baseline against which to measure future progress.

You want to be able to measure your progress, experience the push and stretch of obtaining, all while making sure they are somewhat reasonable.

It was a tool to measure company progress, but it was a like a control panel out of NASA — labels and percentages and charts every which way.

Evaluation measures include progress against business model and growth strategies, client relationship management, staff retention, and the evolution of asset allocation and product strategy in line with investor needs.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

Is this some measure of progress?

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

The power of Google snippets is in gathering data to demystify the black box of the notoriously fuzzy production process — in which raw material turns into output with the application of labor — and makes progress possible to measure, analyze, and recognize.

This represents a reversal of progress and is the lowest - value measured by the Index since 2008.

For a while these negotiations appeared to be making progress, with the President agreeing in principle to cut social programs (the Democrats» sacred cow) and Boehner showing a willingness to accept some measure of revenue increases (a Republican litmus test).

Setting clear goals and plans will make it easier to measure your progress and will make sure you never lose sight of the big picture.

We work with all of the teams to help them understand how they can measure progress against their objectives.

They intuitively want to convey to their clients that they are working hard, and one of the only ways to measure work progress (from the perspective of the client) is by looking at activity within the portfolio.

This voluntary initiative is designed to help organizations and individuals apply key recommendations on how to advance the role of women in leadership and board positions from the B.C. Economic Forum to your organization (as appropriate) and measure the progress.

Exploration has progressed rapidly since the acquisition of the project in late 2011 and the Project now hosts 100 million ounces of silver in Measured and Indicated resources and a further 44 million ounces of silver in Inferred resources.

The story of the growth of open source use in Canada has been far more a matter of evolution than revolution, so quiet in its pace that its progress has been difficult to measure.

The measure of his success is instead whether this week's progress toward an agreement could have been made months ago, before the economy sank back into recession, depositors yanked 30 billion euros ($ 34 billion) from banks and jobs started to vanish.

In late October, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) decided to keep Portugal's sovereign rating at investment grade, maintaining the country's BBB (low) rating with a «stable» outlook on the back of its progress in reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sector.

Multifactor productivity (MFP), commonly interpreted as a measure of technical progress, is at the same level in 2011 as it was in 1971 (for an explanation of what MFP is, see part two).

The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

(The average age of mortality is one of the best indices of human progress, for it measures what is not solely material.)

His unrelenting insistence reminded me — in the most stark terms — of James Baldwin's prophetic quip: «Racial progress in America is measured by how fast I become white.»

«Some of these measures might make some difference; a few could be counterproductive; most are likely to accomplish little in promoting progress toward religious liberty.»

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.

If we are to perceive and measure the extent of Progress we must look resolutely beyond the individual viewpoint.

The collective effort supplies the larger system of reference by which individual purpose and progress are measured.

Realistic measures of human well being show that our vaunted economic progress is not increasing anything worth increasing, even in strictly economic terms.

Social progress can well be measured by the criterion of personal liberty, and the level of civilization may properly be rated according to the range and variety of choices people can make.