Predictive performance measurement in virtual organisations

Predictive Performance measaurement is a decisive task for the further evolution of virtual organisations. The methodologies developed so far have a strong focus on either supply chains or extended enterprise orientied structures. Current trends in manufacturing enterprises change from long-term supply chains to dynamic network co-operation where both the structure and the entities of the network are dynamic and created with respect to the actual customers' order. An important management task within this kind of cooperation is to identify the most suitable partners and to build up the best performing virtual team within a short time frame to fulfill the customers' wishes. This paper discusses a predictive performance measurement approach as planning tool for virtual organisations to anticipate the performance of a planned virtual team.