...Belle Selene Xia; Peng Gong Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of business intelligence (BI) in a consulting company. The authors propose to analyze quality through data analysis and efficiency under different business contexts. The best processes and tools in data mining...

... Benchmarking Secondary schools Performance measures Data analysis Portugal BESP is a benchmarking platform for secondary schools whose aim is to help schools in their internal and external evaluation. For that purpose, a set of key performance indicators was developed allowing schools to analyse...

...) have used DEA to test the economic consequences of the occupational health and safety administration caused due to cotton dust in fabric industries. Occupational health and safety Benchmarking Data analysis Decision making units India Next, effect of changes in each input on output...

... Benchmarking Data analysis Decision making units Neural nets India has liberalized the business education market in 1990s resulting in a rapid growth of business schools offering programs at both undergraduate as well as post‐graduate levels. The development of B‐schools is largely adopting...

... a benchmarking perspective and evaluating the comparative efficiency of coffee stores using internal data, which is not accessible to the general public. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Coffee Retailing Performance measures Benchmarking Data analysis Coffee has been around since...

...). The proposed DEA model can be mathematically expressed as (Charnes et al., 1978 ; Fare et al., 1994 ; Nolan et al., 2001). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Emergency services Medical care Data analysis Benchmarking Service delivery United States of America...

... for the efficient units that have got a possibility of achieving scores greater than 1. The model is formulated as: Equation 3 We now provide a brief review of the basic, super efficiency and cross‐efficiency DEA models that are used in this paper for data analysis. DEA defines the efficiency of each...

...@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Benchmarking Project evaluation Telecommunication services Data analysis India Over the last two decades, there has been an awesome change in the world economy because of a constant development and up gradation in information...

... of this research to make benchmarking for the other industries. Originality/value This is the first paper that adopts the various DEA models for measuring of efficiency in gas distribution industry of Ukraine and the tools of international benchmarking for Ukrainian and US companies. Benchmarking Data...

... in past literature is provided in Section 3. Some of the issues identified here are as follows: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Supply chain management Benchmarking Performance measures Data analysis Benchmarking is a popular tool which is used universally as a tool...

... be contacted at: joos@cwu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Benchmarking Operations management Charities Data analysis Strategic planning The National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops (NARTS, Press Kit, www.narts.org/press/) states that resale is one of the fastest...

... r and discipline d as a percentage of BSAL_r MEAD_ird merit adjustment for faculty member i of rank r in discipline d as a multiple of NCR × BSAL_r Pay Data analysis Benchmarking Academic staff Arabian...

...; Z_k is the ratio of weighted outputs to the weighted inputs, the weights are selected in a way that makes DMU_k as efficient as possible compared to all other DMUs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Long‐term care Nursing homes Data analysis Service delivery...

... performance Data analysis Benchmarking Joe Zhu provides a well‐crafted book on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and its application to performance analysis and benchmarking. The book includes descriptions of many specialized DEA models, examples of their use, and an Excel add‐in program that allows...

... to determine directly the product/process requirements desired. 1. Action: develop action plans; implement plans and monitor results; and recalibrate benchmarks. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Benchmarking Purchasing Multiprogramming Data analysis Since...