ABSTRACT
The only value of measurement and evaluation in business-related programs is to save money. The most traditional economic maxim, that of marginal analysis, can be applied to the selection of the best mix of measurement and evaluation techniques. Three types of measurement are discussed. Improvements to vendor software, application programs and compilers each give the data processing manager an area for making the same kind of economic analysis which his counterparts in other segments face. Brief examples and discussions of each are also given. This paper suggests that the most fundamental unit—one understood by manager and worker—dollar cost— can be a basic element of any decision system involving measurement and evaluation of a system or its segments.
Index Terms
- Using business concepts to evaluate large multi-level business systems—some applied techniques
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