Talk:Performance metric/Archives/2013

Examples?

For the section that starts

"To correct for the measurement inversion other methods, like Applied Information Economics, introduce the "value of information analysis" step in the process so that metrics focus on high-value measures. Organizations where this has been applied find that they define completely different metrics than they otherwise would have and, often, fewer metrics.[5]"

I think it would be nice to progive some examples of some high value measures, and define "value of information analysis" a little more - what do you think? Shanzu 06:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Other kind of performance metrics

This page is about performance metrics in the context of business. There are other performance metrics as well, for example in the context of computer science or AI: http://www.nist.gov/mel/isd/permis2010.cfm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.233.60.178 (talk) 02:57, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

KPI

The service level article mentions KPIs, and I believe this article is more relevant to that subject, so I believe they should be mentioned, if not actually explained, here as well. 70.250.190.30 (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge of article

Performance metric versus measure

I believe we should consider redirecting performance measure and performance measures to this page. 70.250.190.30 (talk) 02:51, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

I suggest that the Performance [metric] page be merged into the Performance [measurement] page, or become a child of it, because "performance metric" appears to be a subset of ""performance measure" and "performance measurement."

Within the United States government, there is a law called the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) that both uses and defines the terms outcome and output measure, however it does not use the term "metric." There are many other laws, such as The Clinger Cohen Act, and standards, such as the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) statements, which use the terms "measurement" and "measure." There is an implementing document to GPRA called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-11 which defines "performance measures" as " Indicators, statistics, or metrics used to gauge program performance." The context is strategic plans, performance budgets/annual plans, and annual performance reports. The American Society for Quality's glossary defines "metric" as "a standard for measurement," and so do dictionary definitions. Reading all of these, I conclude that performance measure is the parent and performance metric or metric is a child. Understanding-This (talk) 19:26, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Unbiased Metrics

Performance metrics should continue to be unique topic. Metrics and measurement are very different in that metrics can exist without measurement while the inverse is not true. Metrics are designed to measure a specific result or state, a system of measurement may be applied using different metrics. An accurate set of metrics will always give the same result regardless of which system of measurement is applied. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.115.86.201 (talk) 20:47, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Really the discussions regarding moving this topic are probably based upon the incomplete nature of the original article. My experience has been that the unbiased definition of metrics is extremly difficult. An accurate and comprehensive discussion of the methodology for defining unbiased metrics would be of great value.

While it may be true that a performance metric is not identical to a performance measure, I don't believe that there is enough information on performance metric to justify its own article. I also think that having performance metric being its own sub-heading under performance measure is logical, if it is believed that it needs to remain distinct. To say that 'metrics can exist without measurement' to me sounds nonsensical - metrics are a measurement. (Though on the other hand you can measure without using metrics.) Further, The opening sentence of this page says "A performance metric is a measure of an organization's activities and performance". If performance metric is somehow not part of performance measurement, then the article needs to be a lot of clearer. I therefore support a merge of the article. (Note that the Wiki Help page on merging says that one reason for a merge is: "minimal content that could be covered in ...the context of a page on a broader topic.")

At this stage there appears to be one person in support of keeping the article separate and 3 people supporting a merge. I am going to add the merge tag to the performance measure page and redirect discussion here as well. JenLouise (talk) 05:30, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Merge with Performance indicators

As per the discussion on the Performance indicator page I am removing the suggest for a merge with that page, as it specifically about KPIs and contains enough information to be its own article. JenLouise (talk) 05:30, 9 December 2011 (UTC)