The field of metric learning focuses on tailoring distance metrics to better capture the underlying structure in data by learning from examples. By optimising the measure of similarity between samples ...

The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine's Balanced Scorecard is a measurement-based tool developed to manage our strategy and track our fulfilled mission requirements. The purpose ...

Twenty years ago, managers were frustrated because financial measures were the only way to assess their operations. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) answered their complaints. This performance measurement ...

The balanced scorecard approach to management was first laid out by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This broad management strategy that separates an organization's goals into quantifiable ...

A WELL-DEFINED STRATEGY is the key factor behind any successful business initiative, be it a QoS (quality of service) enhancement or a sales force reorganization. Indeed, a company that fails to ...