The MSA [ 13] addresses the fundamental challenge of defining and calculating the contributions of network elements to a defined measurable task, given a data set of multiple-perturbations experiments and their corresponding performance scores.
We're no longer educating children -- we're just getting kids to pass tests, because that's a small and measurable task that you can "succeed" on, including changing scores, teaching to the test, etc. Educating a child is a huge task that really has very little to do with test-taking capacities.
But many believe the real significance of Beijing's Paralympics lay in the less easily measurable task of changing attitudes towards China's 83 million disabled citizens.
Web conferencing serves a broader "C-level"–the cubicle and is oriented to more specific and measurable tasks.
To do this, Ms. Mayzler would have to pinpoint the definable, repeatable and measurable tasks that she regularly executes in her current role.
For example, auditing systems enacted for 'transparency' may focus attention on more measurable tasks at the detriment of others (e.g. publishing lots of papers instead of taking time to find new audiences for their work).
The economists Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom describe the general problem of misaligned incentives in more formal terms – workers who are rewarded only for accomplishment of easily measurable tasks reduce the effort devoted to other tasks.
They have all the right people on the bus, with measurable tasks and rewards.
Take a measurable outcome like getting someone a job.
It cannot be excluded that some of the negative results that emerged may have resulted from the fact that a task was actually applied before or after a measurable effect had developed.
If management is obliged to conclude that the emperor in fact has few clothes, the most pressing task is to find out how to achieve a measurable effect that can be evaluated for its financial implications.
