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Key Performance Indicators – What Are Key Performance Indicators or KPI

What is "KPI"?

Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPI or Key Success Indicators (KSI), help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals. Once an organization has analyzed its mission, identified all its stakeholders, and defined its goals, it needs a way to measure progress toward those goals. Key Performance Indicators are those measurements. What Are Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Key Performance Indicators are quantifiable measurements, agreed to beforehand, that reflect the critical success factors of an organization. They will differ depending on the organization. A business may have as one of its Key Performance Indicators the percentage of its income that comes from return customers. A school may focus its Key Performance Indicators on graduation rates of its students. A Customer Service Department may have as one of its Key Performance Indicators, in line with overall company KPIs, percentage of customer calls answered in the first minute. A Key Performance Indicator for a social service organization might be number of clients assisted during the year. Whatever Key Performance Indicators are selected, they must reflect the organization's goals, they must be key to its success,and they must be quantifiable (measurable). Key Performance Indicators usually are long-term considerations. The definition of what they are and how they are measured do not change often. The goals for a particular Key Performance Indicator may change as the organization's goals change, or as it gets closer to achieving a goal. Key Performance Indicators Reflect The Organizational Goals An organization that has as one of its goals 'to be the most profitable company in our industry' will have Key Performance Indicators that measure profit and related fiscal measures. 'Pre-tax Profit' and 'Shareholder Equity' will be among them. However, 'Percent of Profit Contributed to Community Causes' probably will not be one of its Key Performance Indicators. On the other hand, a school is not concerned with making a profit, so its Key Performance Indicators will be different. KPIs like 'Graduation Rate' and 'Success In Finding Employment After Graduation', though different, accurately reflect the schools mission and goals. Key Performance Indicators Must Be Quantifiable If a Key Performance Indicator is going to be of any value, there must be a way to accurately define and measure it. 'Generate More Repeat Customers' is useless as a KPI without some way to distinguish between new and repeat customers. 'Be The Most Popular Company' won't work as a KPI because there is no way to measure the company's popularity or compare it to others. It is also important to define the Key Performance Indicators and stay with the same definition from year to year. For a KPI of 'Increase Sales', you need to address considerations like whether to measure by units sold or by dollar value of sales. Will returns be deducted from sales in the month of the sale or the month of the return? Will sales be recorded for the KPI at list price or at the actual sales price? You also need to set targets for each Key Performance Indicator. A company goal to be the employer of choice might include a KPI of 'Turnover Rate'. After the Key Performance Indicator has been defined as 'the number of voluntary resignations and terminations for performance, divided by the total number of employees at the beginning of the period' and a way to measure it has been set up by collecting the information in an HRIS, the target has to be established. 'Reduce turnover by five percent per year' is a clear target that everyone will understand and be able to take specific action to accomplish.

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The True Sense of Adsense

True Sense of Adsense

: The Real tips and Tricks maintain high eCPM and maximize the "Adsense Revenue"


I found that there is no people could actually explain how to get a good eCPM. Some say increase your traffic of your site, and there is a silly post that removing your pud-ID when the eCPM is low! In my opinion, those are useless tips.

For increasing a website's traffic matter, it is actually every adsense client's major problem. Unless your site has new interesting content everyday, otherwise, it is very hard to keep increasing the traffic all the time.


For the one about remove the pub-ID from the code, I do not know if it is true since I have never tired, of course, it is a pretty big project to remove every page's pub-ID from the ADsense code. Also, it is not effective for adsense user could earn for only every another day.


For those basic knowledge, such as using match colour, using good scale layout and filtering your ADs, i am not going to talk about here, since I believe those are common sense to every Adsense user.

Adsense is a very smart real-time system, it controls what ADs are going to show in your site. The major factor of eCPM that no one is talking about is "link" matter. Both link-in and link-out determine your eCPM. You need to know that the site you linking out or in is "google friendly" or not. For example, sites of micro$oft and f@cebook are not Google friendly sites. Linking to them will lower your eCPM. Even your drive people to your site from them, those vistors will show low value ADs.

On the other hand, linking to youtube.com  and blogger.com could maintain a high eCPM. The easilest way to find out if the site is Google friendly is checking out if they are using a google search engine for their site. Clicking your own AD by mistake would seriously effect your eCPM.

Hope this post could tell you some sense of the adsense system.

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BBC News is the department of the BBC  responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.  The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost all the world's 240 countries. Since 2004 the Director of BBC News has been Helen Boaden.

The department's annual budget is £350 million; there are 3,500 members of staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. Through the BBC English Regions BBC News has regional centres across England as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All regions and nations produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

Radio and television operations are broadcast from BBC Television Centre in West London though are set to move to brand new facilities in the newly extended and refurbished Broadcasting House in Central London in 2012. Television Centre houses all domestic, global and online news divisions within one main newsroom. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London.
Criticism of the BBC in the United Kingdom has generally taken the form of accusations of political bias from across the political spectrum, although the BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by Royal Charter, making it formally independent of government. Internationally the BBC has been banned from reporting from within some countries who accuse the corporation of working to destabilise their Governments.

In 2005 BBC News celebrated 50 years of news broadcasts. BBC News journalists, cameramen and programmes have won awards over the year for reporting, particularly from the Royal Television Society.

The BBC founded the BBC College of Journalism in 2005 as a part of the BBC Academy, following recommendations made after the Hutton Report.

How to: Disable Splash screen in Office 2010? Here is how *updated*

Wanting to disable the splashscreen in office 2010?
By 5entinel

1.Right-click on the desktop. 2. Click New and select Shortcut.
3. Click the Browse button and go to the Word executable (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE”).
4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in /q.
e.g. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE” /q

5. Click Next.
6. Type a name for the shortcut.
7. Click Finish.

For Excel

1.Right-click on the desktop. 2. Click New and select Shortcut.
3. Click the Browse button and go to the Word executable (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE”).
4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in /e.
e.g. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.EXE” /e

5. Click Next.
6. Type a name for the shortcut.
7. Click Finish.


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For Powerpoint
1.Right-click on the desktop. 2. Click New and select Shortcut.
3. Click the Browse button and go to the Word executable (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE”).
4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in /s.
e.g. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\POWERPNT.EXE” /s

5. Click Next.
6. Type a name for the shortcut.
7. Click Finish.

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Disable the splashscreen in office 2010 For Access

1.Right-click on the desktop. 2. Click New and select Shortcut.
3. Click the Browse button and go to the Word executable (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Access.EXE”).
4. After the full path and the end quotes, add one space and type in /s.
e.g. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Access.EXE” /s

5. Click Next.
6. Type a name for the shortcut.
7. Click Finish.

Office 2010 configures everytime it starts

Office 2010 configures everytime it starts


Apparantly, some people have had problems with this issue, going back to Office 2007, when an upgrade has be performed, but not all programs in the Office suite are upgraded (ie, you have an older program from a previous suite still installed on your computer ie. you upgrade to Office 2010 Home & student, but your 2007 installation had Outlook, and the version of Outlook on your computer is 2007).

If this is the case, one fix is to create a new registry key for each of the 2010 applications installed on your computer.
Open regedit by pressing Windows+r, and typing regedit in the Run dialog box. Select OK, and approve the UAC warning if you are presented with it.

IMPORTANT: Please first back-up your registry before proceding, by highlighting 'Computer', selecting File>export and create a copy of the registry on your desktop. This way, if you have any problems, you can enter safe-mode, and reinstall a copy of your registry before this change.

That said, exit regedit, and again bring up a run dialog box by pressing Win+R
You will need to do this for each Office 2010 app you have on your computer.

In the Run dialog box type: 'reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\*OFFICE APP NAME*\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1', replacing *OFFICE APP NAME* with the office applications on your computer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint...etc) without the quotes of course.

restart your computer, and attempt to open an office program.

This solution works for most, but there are some people where this is not enough, and a long process of allowing permissions for different parts of all the applications is required.

Try the simple fix, and report back.