2020
DOI: 10.3390/su12155977
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Identification of Key Performance Indicators in Project-Based Organisations through the Lean Approach

Abstract: For the time being, companies and organisations are being forced to compete in utterly complex and globalised environments, facing massive natural, economic, and technological challenges on a daily basis. Addressing these challenges would be impossible without a proper approach that helps them identify, measure, understand, and control the performance of their organisations. Lean principles and techniques rise as a solution. This paper justifies and proposes the use of lean principles and techniques to identif… Show more

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“…Nevertheless, this cannot be confirmed due to the lack of energy data for a number of the cases studied, particularly, for the smaller plants [20,47,52,69]. Another possible reason could be related to the availability of specialized management resources in larger plants, as usually happens in industrial organizations [67,[81][82][83]. This could also explain the fact that most of the plants have several renewable technologies installed.…”
Section: Hydropower Application To Wastewater Systems: Real Case Studiesmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…Nevertheless, this cannot be confirmed due to the lack of energy data for a number of the cases studied, particularly, for the smaller plants [20,47,52,69]. Another possible reason could be related to the availability of specialized management resources in larger plants, as usually happens in industrial organizations [67,[81][82][83]. This could also explain the fact that most of the plants have several renewable technologies installed.…”
Section: Hydropower Application To Wastewater Systems: Real Case Studiesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…All these KPIs might show a wide range of different values, depending on the effecting factors described in Section 1, such as the size of the plant or type of treatment [9,12,14], providing valuable information for improvement in the first line of action, energy efficiency. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a well-established method widely used nowadays in the management of all types of business activities and organizations [67]. Indicators can be established at micro-, meso-, or macro-level, depending on the system being measured.…”
Section: Energy Kpis Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“… Improvement processes [12]: these are processes of a generic nature that plan, organize, monitor and control the activities of the organization as a whole as well as the business results of the organization. Such processes are human resource management, planning, internal control, etc.…”
Section: Process Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Management and organizational KPIs are especially important to measure the relationship among project members and their ability to collaborate and avoid or resolve conflicts. This kind of indicator is now present in the evaluation of many university-industry collaborative projects and other public sector projects [8], [30]. ProdPhd includes the following KPIs related to the team's organization, its ability to solve internal conflicts, and the relationship between the partners and the Expert Advisory Board.…”
Section: Management/organizationmentioning
confidence: 99%