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This 12 page paper considers the importance of standard setting and performance monitoring on task management and the success of a company. The first part of the paper examines the use of standards and how these are important with introducing any task management system, a example is used to demonstrate how lack of standard setting increases the chances of failure. The second part of the paper then considers tools that may be used to monitor task management, the example used is that of the balanced scorecard. The bibliography sites 11 sources. 12
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and also measures or monitoring tools. Standards may be seen as subjective, and as such, in business there is a need to define what exactly these mean. One dictionary definition
of standards states of that the terms standard, used in this context will mean "An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value; a criterion..... A degree or level
of requirement, excellence, or attainment" (Dictionary.com, 2004). This shows how standards need to be defined but also how they need to relate to the requirements of a task. For example,
if a company is making exclusive diamond pendants the standards will need to bee defined in terms of high quality with measurable criteria. However, if the company is making task
bags then the standards will not need to be high, but appropriate to the task in hand. The standard of the material used and the production quality may be expressed
in terms of the performance of the product and the specification required to meet that need. Here the standard of the input material may be lower than other plastic products
such as childrens toys. In setting the correct standards there is a less likely failure scenario. However, when setting standards these need to be made by reference to all
the requirements of the end product,. For example, looking at an IT product and the use of information technology, it is not only the task that should be set within
the standards, such as what it needs to do and within what parameters, but also the standards required to help and gain the support of the users. IF we look
at an example of a task management IT installation that initially failed, this can be seen as a result of failing to set some standards. In this case standard were
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