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		<title>Performance measurement and reporting in Australian public hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2011/03/22/performance-measurement-and-reporting-in-australian-public-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Report on Government Services (RoGS) 2011 realized by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP) offers a detailed perspective on how the Australian government informs improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of government services. The report includes a review of the general framework for performance reporting, alignment of RoGS indicators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KPIs around the world: Performance achievements from Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2011/01/19/kpis-around-the-world-performance-achievements-from-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2011/01/19/kpis-around-the-world-performance-achievements-from-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency reports that The Information Communication and Culture Ministry from Malaysia has successfully achieved its Key Performance Indicators (KPI) set in 2010.
Some highlights into the achievements are as follows (Bernama, 2011):

A level of understanding towards the 1Malaysia concept of 72 per cent, compared to the target of 50 per cent;
Broadband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A review of Global Corporate Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/12/30/a-review-of-global-corporate-citizenship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/12/30/a-review-of-global-corporate-citizenship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorina</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Klaus Schwab (2008), founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum,
„Global corporate citizenship means that companies must not only be engaged with stakeholders but be stakeholders themselves alongside governments and civil society. Since companies depend on global development, which in turn relies on stability and increased prosperity, it is in their direct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of data visualization &#8211; lifespan and income in history</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/12/23/the-power-of-data-visualization-lifespan-and-income-in-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/12/23/the-power-of-data-visualization-lifespan-and-income-in-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Hans Rosling&#8217;s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes &#8211; The Joy of Stats &#8211; BBC Four
More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l
BBC presentation: Hans Rosling&#8217;s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport&#8217;s commentator&#8217;s style to reveal the story of the world&#8217;s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring the ease of doing business around the world</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/11/09/measuring-the-ease-of-doing-business-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/11/09/measuring-the-ease-of-doing-business-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) &#38; The World Bank report, Doing Business 2011: Making a difference for entrepreneurs, presents a series of quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights in 183 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. This year&#8217;s edition is the eighth in a series of annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ranking hospitals performance by web presence</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/11/02/ranking-hospitals-performance-by-web-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/11/02/ranking-hospitals-performance-by-web-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A previous blog post, USA top hospitals ranking based on performance improvement, presented the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks, an annual, quantitative study dedicated to measuring performance across  the industry,                  that identifies the best hospitals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender diversity &#8211; global trends and the influence on organizational performance</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/10/15/gender-diversity-global-trends-and-the-influence-on-organizational-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/10/15/gender-diversity-global-trends-and-the-influence-on-organizational-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade or so, there has been an increased focus and debate on gender diversity of top executives and managers of corporations. This was caused mainly by the low proportion of women reaching top positions (Grant Thornton, 2009), despite the proved positive effect of gender diversity on organizational performance (Smith et al, 2005).
Gender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global ranking of countries based on sovereign debt risk</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/10/09/global-ranking-of-countries-based-on-sovereign-debt-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/10/09/global-ranking-of-countries-based-on-sovereign-debt-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent report of global sovereign credit risk for the 3rd Quarter of 2010 presents the country rating based on the Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD), indicating the probability of a country being unable to honour its debt obligations over a given time period. CPD is calculated using an industry standard model and proprietary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Expectancy &#8211; Outcome performance measure for health improvement</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/09/24/life-expectancy-outcome-performance-measure-for-health-improvement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/09/24/life-expectancy-outcome-performance-measure-for-health-improvement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recently published article, A Healthy Bottom Line: Healthy Life Expectancy as an Outcome Measure for Health Improvement Efforts, the Milbank Quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy, recommends the adoption and adaptation of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) as an national outcome measure in USA.
The article sustains that HLE is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring the well-being of children &#8211; Key National Indicators 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/09/07/measuring-the-well-being-of-children-key-national-indicators-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartkpis.com/blog/2010/09/07/measuring-the-well-being-of-children-key-national-indicators-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent edition of the America&#8217;s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being report, published each year since 1997 by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, presents updated results with regards to the well-being of children and families living in the USA.
The report covers several children and youth well-being domains such as: family [...]]]></description>
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