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  • initialism management A key performance indicator.
  • initialism automotive kingpin inclination

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  • KPIs are defined within the web catalog and are defined by taking a measure, a target measure and a set of thresholds, which can then be used either directly in dashboards (by use of another new feature called KPI Watchlists) or within one of the new scorecards.

    Rittman Mead Consulting 2010

  • Strong results from all of our key performance indicators and the format of these charts relaying out what I would call KPI just to help guide you through and think about our geographic businesses.

    Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • These young people have a different set of 'KPI's' from which they judge a politician, and party loyalty is not top of the list.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • I believe that all college programs in Ontario have these panels and that each college is presented with this 'KPI' data for analysis.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • Don't assume that everyone is thinking Kaplan-Norton, normalized score calculations, cascading KPIs and weighted rollups when they say "KPI" and "scorecard".

    Nick Barclay: BI-Lingual 2008

  • Just because someone uses the term "KPI" does not always mean the creation of a PPS KPI element, an SSAS KPI or MOSS KPI is necessarily the answer.

    Nick Barclay: BI-Lingual 2008

  • What I'm focusing on is the sometimes casual use of the words "KPI" "scorecard" and "dashboard" in requirements documents.

    Nick Barclay: BI-Lingual 2008

  • Is it just my imagination or are the words "KPI", "Scorecard" and "Dashboard" appearing in spec documents with increasing frequency and (sometimes) decreasing thought?

    Nick Barclay: BI-Lingual 2008

  • "We assessed your metrics and parameters of your KPI, key performance indicators and made our decisions based on that," said the underwriter.

    B. Jeffrey Madoff: An Honest Bank Is Hard to Find B. Jeffrey Madoff 2011

  • KPI, Key performances figures, booking people for the sake of figures.

    Our Friends From The North « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

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