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Time-to-market in days for existing product/service improvement projects
This measure calculates the number of calendar days required to design, test market, and manufacture/deliver existing product/service improvement projects. The cycle time…
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Time-to-market in days for new product/service development projects
This measure calculates the number of calendar days required to design, test market, and manufacture/deliver new product/service development projects. The cycle time begins…
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Number of FTEs (including external) that perform the process group "govern and manage product/service development program" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates number of full time equivalents (FTEs) (including external) per $1 billion revenue that perform the process group "govern and manage product/service…
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Number of FTEs (including external) that perform the process group "generate and define new product/service ideas" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the number of full time equivalents (FTEs) (including external) per $1 billion business entity revenue that perform the process group "generate and…
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Total cost to perform the process group "generate and define new product/service ideas" per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates total cost per $1,000 business entity revenue to perform the process group "generate and define new product/service ideas". Total cost is the sum of…
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Product development defect rate in parts per million
This measure calculates the average manufacturing defect rate in parts per million for a company's primary products (during development; i.e. not yet fully finalized finished…
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Average time-to-profitability in months for new product/service development projects
This measure calculates the average number of months that elapse from the start of the "design and develop product/service" process (when resources are first assigned) to the…
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Research and development (R&D) cost per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the research and development (R&D) cost per $1,000 revenue. R&D costs include all labor, materials, and overhead associated with discovering new…
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Research and development (R&D) cost as a percentage of revenue
This measure calculates research and development (R&D) cost as a percentage of revenue. R&D cost includes all cost elements—including labor costs, material costs, allocations…
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Personnel cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" as a percentage of total process cost
This measure calculates the percentage of the total cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" that comes from personnel cost. Core components of this…
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Systems cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" as a percentage of total process cost
This measure calculates systems cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" as a percentage of total process cost Systems cost refers to a variety of…
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Total cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" per customer receipt
This measure calculates the total cost per customer receipt to perform the process "manage and process collections," which consists of posting entries to respective accounts,…
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Total cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" as a percentage of revenue
This measure calculates the total cost as a percentage of revenue to perform the process "manage and process collections," which consists of posting entries to respective…
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Total cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" per $1 billion revenue
This measure calculates the total cost per $1 billion revenue to perform the process "manage and process collections," which consists of posting entries to respective…
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Total cost to perform the process "manage and process collections" per $1,000 revenue
This measure calculates the total cost per $1,000 revenue to perform the process "manage and process collections," which consists of posting entries to respective accounts,…