System Performance Measure
A System Performance Measure is a entity performance measure that quantifies the system effectiveness, system efficiency, or system quality of a designed system or natural system.
- Context:
- output: System Performance Score.
- It can typically evaluate System Effectiveness through outcome-based measurement criteria.
- It can typically assess System Process Efficiency through resource utilization analysis.
- It can typically monitor System Task Achievement through goal completion tracking.
- It can typically quantify System Resource Utilization through consumption pattern measurement.
- It can typically analyze System Reliability through failure rate monitoring and uptime measurement.
- It can typically validate System Quality through compliance verification and quality standard assessment.
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- It can often support System Performance Optimization through performance data analysis.
- It can often enable System Comparative Analysis through cross-system benchmarking.
- It can often guide System-Related Decision Making through performance-based insights.
- It can often identify System Improvement Areas through performance gap analysis.
- It can often forecast Future System Performance through trend analysis and predictive modeling.
- It can often mitigate System Risk through early warning indicators.
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- It can range from being a Single-Metric System Performance Measure to being a Multi-Metric System Performance Measure, depending on its measurement comprehensiveness.
- It can range from being a Real-Time System Performance Measure to being a Historical System Performance Measure, depending on its temporal characteristic.
- It can range from being a Technical System Performance Measure to being a Business System Performance Measure, depending on its application domain.
- It can range from being an Automated System Performance Measure to being a Manual System Performance Measure, depending on its collection method.
- It can range from being a Component-Level System Performance Measure to being a System-Wide Performance Measure, depending on its measurement scope.
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- It can integrate with System Performance Management Platforms for automated data collection.
- It can support System Continuous Improvement through performance tracking capability.
- It can inform System Strategic Planning through long-term performance insights.
- It can enable System Predictive Maintenance through performance degradation detection.
- It can standardize System Performance Expectations through baseline establishment.
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- Example(s):
- Computing System Performance Measures, such as:
- System Response Time Measure measuring system responsiveness to user requests.
- System Throughput Measure evaluating data processing rates.
- System Resource Utilization Measure tracking CPU usage, memory consumption, and network bandwidth.
- System Scalability Measure assessing performance under load.
- Business System Performance Measures, such as:
- Enterprise System ROI Measure calculating financial return on system investment.
- Customer Service System Performance Measure evaluating service quality and response time.
- Supply Chain System Efficiency Measure tracking inventory turnover and delivery performance.
- Sales System Conversion Rate measuring lead-to-customer transformation.
- Contract Performance Measure evaluating contract management system effectiveness.
- AI System Performance Measures, such as:
- Machine Learning System Accuracy Measure evaluating prediction correctness.
- Detection Performance Measure quantifying target identification capability.
- Issue-Spotting Performance Measure measuring problem identification effectiveness.
- Natural Language Processing System F1 Score balancing precision and recall.
- Operational System Performance Measures, such as:
- Manufacturing System OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) combining availability, performance, and quality.
- Healthcare System Patient Flow Measure tracking patient throughput and wait times.
- Transportation System On-Time Performance measuring schedule adherence.
- Quality System Performance Measures, such as:
- Software System Defect Rate tracking bug frequency per code unit.
- Contract Review System Performance Measure evaluating issue detection accuracy.
- Contract Issue-Spotting Performance Measure measuring contract problem identification.
- Issue-Spotting Performance Measure measuring problem identification effectiveness.
- Data System Integrity Measure assessing data accuracy and completeness.
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- Computing System Performance Measures, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- System Specification, which defines design requirements without performance evaluation.
- System Status Report, which presents current state without performance measurement.
- System Feature Description, which details system capability without effectiveness assessment.
- System Usage Log, which records system activity without performance interpretation.
- System Architecture Diagram, which shows system structure without performance metrics.
- See: Performance Measure, Detection Performance Measure, Contract Performance Measure, Contract Review Performance Measure, System Optimization, System Benchmarking, Key Performance Indicator, System Quality Control, System Analytics, Performance Dashboard, System Efficiency Measurement.
References
2009
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_improvement#Performance_defined
- Performance is a measure of the results achieved. Performance efficiency is the ratio between effort expended and results achieved. The difference between current performance and the theoretical performance limit is the performance improvement zone.
Another way to think of performance improvement is to see it as improvement in four potential areas. First, is the resource INPUT requirements (e.g., reduced working capital, material, replacement/reorder time, and set-up requirements). Second, is the THROUGHPUT requirements, often viewed as process efficiency; this is measured in terms of time, waste, and resource utilization. Third, OUTPUT requirements, often viewed from a cost/price, quality, functionality perspective. Fourth, OUTCOME requirements, did it end up making a difference.
Performance is an abstract concept and must be represented by concrete, measurable phenomena or events to be measured. Baseball athlete performance is abstract covering many different types of activities. Batting average is a concrete measure of a particular performance attribute for a particular game role, batting, for the game of baseball.
Performance assumes an actor of some kind but the actor could be an individual person or a group of people acting in concert. The performance platform is the infrastructure or devices used in the performance act.
There are two main ways to improve performance: improving the measured attribute by using the performance platform more effectively, or by improving the measured attribute by modifying the performance platform, which in turn allows a given level of use to be more effective in producing the desired output.
- Performance is a measure of the results achieved. Performance efficiency is the ratio between effort expended and results achieved. The difference between current performance and the theoretical performance limit is the performance improvement zone.