Sentences with phrase «performance as a metric»

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

Not exact matches

It's that the performance metrics are nowhere near as good as they are through FBA.

T - Mobile uses Adjusted EBITDA internally as a metric to evaluate and compensate its personnel and management for their performance, and as a benchmark to evaluate T - Mobile's operating performance in comparison to its competitors.

There are a few key metrics entrepreneurs can look at to monitor their performance and keep the train from going off the tracks as it chugs ahead.

The critique doesn't only come from the left; there are plenty of hard - nosed investment firms that are agitating to clamp a lid on ever - growing CEO pay, arguing that it's a poor use of shareholders» money and distorts performance as CEOs start managing to their pay metrics instead of longer - term growth.

Similarly, some review sites offer detailed customer ratings on metrics such as service, value, quality, returns and shipping, which can also be used to benchmark performance.

Spotify said that «we currently do not have, and may never have, the requisite data available to adjust such key performance indicators and other metrics prior to January 1, 2017, and as a result, such key performance indicators and other metrics for such periods may be overstated.»

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

In fact, 58 percent of companies are still using spreadsheets as their primary way to track performance metrics, according to the Workplace Trends study.

Welch had set disciplined expectations for executive behavior and financial performance inside his sprawling global conglomerate with such textbook metrics as Six Sigma.

Ordinary metrics such as calls per day and minutes per call are a decent starting point, but they alone are not comprehensive enough to paint a complete picture of the skills of any particular sales rep.. So, consider incorporating lesser - used metrics into your performance tracking, such as voicemail - return rate, dial - to - opportunity percentage and dials - to - appointments ratio.

Biophilic design elements have demonstrably real, measurable benefits for human performance metrics such as productivity, emotional well - being, stress reduction, learning, and healing, according to Terrapin Bright Green.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

In addition, certain of these non-GAAP financial measures are used as performance metrics in the Company's incentive compensation programs.

Fitza's research builds on (and subverts) a large body of academic work connecting CEO performance to company performance — using return on assets as the metric of the latter.

Management believes that organic growth is an important metric for measuring the operating performance of our business as it helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects of FX movements.

Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

Some analysts link criteria to performance and / or valuation metrics such as earnings - per - share growth (EPS) or the price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio.

By tracking and analyzing the metrics associated with your landing pages, you can collect a lot of insight into your marketing performance, such as how your various marketing offers compare, how visitors and leads are converting on your landing pages over time, and more.

The Compensation Committee also considered that the annual cash incentive plan already incentivizes performance on three key Company - specific financial measures, and the importance of emphasizing holistic Company performance, as opposed to an isolated metric; the importance of setting a sufficiently difficult target for maximum payout; the benefit of a large and objectively determined performance comparator group; and the overarching goal of an incentive clearly and directly aligned with stockholder interests.

The metric of «cash flow from operations as a percentage of revenue» has been used for more than five years as a financial metric in HP's long - term incentive programs, and HP believes that it continues to be a key metric that both drives and demonstrates improved financial performance within the company.

As businesses grow, the number of metrics tracked across the customer engagement is growing, and measuring sales performance for all teams becomes complicated.

The authors calculated the difference between actual financial performance (in areas such as EPS, profitability, and sales) and the target level set for each metric in the individual CEO's performance incentive contract.

O'Reilly has aligned executive compensation with ROIC since 2013, when it replaced inventory turnover as a performance metric.

As a dividend growth investor, you can look at several metrics to evaluate the performance of a stock over the last months, years or even decades.

Companies like to use EPS as a performance metric because it is the primary focus of financial analysts when assessing the value of a stock and of investors when evaluating their return on investment.

The Amgen board's compensation committee removed EPS as a performance metric the next year.

To measure our success in these areas, we track meaningful metrics such as employee engagement and satisfaction (i.e., employee volunteering, employee giving and results of the Organizational Health Index survey), total employees receiving performance reviews, average hours of training, turnover rates and rate of return from leave.

They consider average excess (relative to short - term interest rate) return and Sharpe ratio as key metrics for rule selection and performance measurement.

These are the traditional markers to gauge performance and as users have a chance to interact, they can adjust their own risk appetites based on metrics and crowdsourcing information.

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Management uses certain of these non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted EBITDA and segment Adjusted EBITDA, as key metrics in the evaluation of underlying Company and segment performance, in making financial, operating and planning decisions and, in part, in the determination of cash bonuses for its executive officers and employees.

Better reporting requirements and newer platforms have helped shed more transparency on the billing and the performance metrics of annuity products as well.

The charts and graphs displayed will provide concise and valuable insights to clients as they examine a company's relative alignment between CEO pay and a variety of key performance metrics relating to earnings and returns.

GM's ROIC has increased from 8 % in 2013, the year before it adopted it as a performance metric, to 11 % in 2017.

They focus on worst - case maximum sustainable real (inflation - adjusted) withdrawal rate over the 30 - year retirement interval as the main strategy performance metric.

We focus on compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and maximum drawdown (MaxDD) as key performance metrics.

He focuses on Sharpe ratio (including dividends) as the critical performance metric, but also considers terminal value of an initial investment.

They focus on net Sharpe ratio as a performance metric.

SFTA serves as a hub for businesses to learn, improve performance, communicate results, share common metrics and best practices.

Ignite's consumer section compiles 60 industry attributes such as visit drivers, craveability and demographics to benchmark guest satisfaction, competitor performance and supplier metrics.

Committee metrics are a bit cruder, such as an offense's performance compared to what its opponents usually allow, but probably suggest similar trends.

They had Patrick Peterson as his mentor and put specific performance metrics and off the field metrics in place.

Committee metrics are a bit cruder, such as an offense's performance compared to what its opponents usually allow, but probably suggest similar teams.

The Labour leader's performance outpolled May among all age groups up to 64 year olds — on nearly all metrics or «entitlements» which viewers saw as important.

Commenting on the result, Kennedy Uzoka, the Group Managing Director / CEO, said that «the results again demonstrate the strong momentum of the Bank, as we deliver continuous improvement across our businesses and key performance metrics.»

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

Moody's said it was moving authority bonds from A1 to A2 — its sixth highest rating — because «future financial performance will rely to a much greater extent on as yet undetermined toll increases to support the bridge construction costs and that failure to adopt sufficient rate increases within the expected time horizon would pressure financial metrics.»

But a 2014 study from a professor at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, found that this metric also washed out as a predictor of grad school performance.

As a result, researchers agree that a standardized set of metrics will allow for comparisons of OPO performance and donation rates in different regions, and they will help to identify areas where proven best practices can be implemented in order to improve donation rates.