Latest news with #KPI
New Straits Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Speedy Tigers going through 'slow motion' again
KUALA LUMPUR: National men's hockey coach Sarjit Singh surely can't expect a "well done" rating in his Key Performance Index (KPI) after Malaysia's dismal show in the ongoing Nations Cup at Bukit Jalil. He has failed to get the Speedy Tigers up to speed since taking over the team in March last year. The former national captain, whose contract with the Malaysia Hockey Confederation (MHC) is until the 2026 Asian Games, has offered many reasons for his underperforming team. Sarjit said that he needs more time to build a team. But it has already been 15 months since he took charge of the Speedy Tigers. And Sarjit himself set the semi-final target for the Nations Cup, one which his men couldn't meet. Yet, after 15 months in charge of the national team, Sarjit said that his team still have a long way to go. "We have to be much better in our fitness. Japan and China are not good teams but their fitness is three times better. So if we improve our fitness three times, I think our team will be in the right direction," he said. Hosts Malaysia, powered by seven players with more than 100 caps, failed to advance to the last four from Group B, and were reduced to playing in the fifth to eighth classification. World No 13 Malaysia drew 3-3 with world No. 15 Pakistan and lost 4-3 to world No. 12 New Zealand before beating world No. 17 Japan in Group B. But this was not enough as Pakistan pipped Malaysia for a place in the semi-finals as Group B runners-up. These are the 18 best players we have in the country and they kept making the same mistakes of conceding goals due to poor focus. The standards and rankings of the eight teams competing in Nations Cup is close to one another, but yet the Speedy Tigers stumbled in their backyard. MHC president Datuk Seri Subahan Kamal said he had given everything to the national players, and he was hoping they could match the other teams in the Nations Cup. But sadly, it turned out to be another letdown. Sarjit's first national assignment was the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup last May where Malaysia finished fourth out of six teams. He set a semi-final target for the Nations Cup in Poland last June, but Malaysia finished seventh among nine teams. And Malaysia's target for the Asian Champions Trophy in Inner Mongolia, China last September was top four, but the Speedy Tigers finished sixth and last. Sarjit also keeps saying "we are getting better" after failing to achieve the targets set by him. Hopefully, he is right. After missing the semi-finals, Sarjit now said that Malaysia's next target is fifth in the Nations Cup. That's a lower target but it seems tough too.
Perth Now
4 days ago
- Sport
- Perth Now
Pearce to miss third straight clash with shin injury
Fremantle captain Alex Pearce has been ruled out of Thursday night's clash with Essendon at Optus Stadium. Pearce will miss a third straight match with a stress-related shin injury. 'It's going to be a bit too tight to get him up for this week, he hasn't quite progressed the way he wanted to,' Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir said before training yesterday. 'So we will have to give him a little bit longer. He's not in drills, and he needed to be in drills by today. So he hasn't quite got there. 'He's moving around, he probably just hasn't taken that next step yet.' The Dockers coach said there was not yet a timeline on his return. 'It will be KPI driven. We are managing him through that. We can't really put a time frame on it. We're hoping for next week.' Alex Pearce hasn't played in round 11. Credit: Paul Kane / Getty Images Pearce's absence means he will miss the three matches he was originally banned for following a collision with Port Adelaide's Darcy Byrne-Jones in round 11, before the Dockers successfully overturned it at the AFL Tribunal. Longmuir said the general health of the squad was good heading into a short, five-day turnaround between Saturday night's narrow win over North Melbourne in the wet and Thursday night's clash with Essendon at Optus Stadium. 'A few bumps and bruises. It was obviously a pretty contested game in the wet, but the players are in good spirits, and we've moved on and are ready to get into Essendon,' he said. Essendon will unleash an 11th debutant of 2025 against the Dockers, with ruckman Vigo Visentini making the trip to Perth for his first AFL game. Visentini has averaged 17.6 disposals, 31 hitouts and 3.3 clearances in the VFL and gets his chance through the absence of regular ruckmen Sam Draper and Nick Bryan who both have long-term injuries. Veteran Todd Goldstein had been employed as ruck coach but stepped in to fill the void across eight games but will be rested for the interstate trip. Peter Wright and Lachie Blakiston, who made his debut last weekend, will help Visentini with the ruck load. Longmuir said the selectors would heavily weigh up whether to play their ruck pair Luke Jackson and Sean Darcy this weekend off the five-day break. Both trained on Tuesday and showed no ill effects from the clash with the Roos. 'We'll consider that later, see how Sean goes at training in particular, but both are talking as though they've pulled up really well,' Longmuir said. Sean Darcy at Fremantle training. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper / The West Australian 'It's possibly an opportunity. We don't want to underestimate the young fellow (Visentini). He's been in really good form in the VFL. His ruck craft, from what I've seen in VFL games, looks really strong and he works hard around the ground. 'So we definitely don't want to underestimate him, but he hasn't got the experience of Goldstein either. So maybe there's an opportunity there.' Liam Reidy is coming off a strong game for Peel Thunder so also remains an option, should Fremantle rest either Jackson or Darcy.
Irish Times
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Malachy Clerkin: Calling the football championship wide open is a polite way of saying every team is flawed
And so we get down to business. A football championship that has already provided more watchable games in a couple of months than in the previous two years combined will now shift gear. For all the good vibes around football in 2025, winning and losing were kind of abstract concepts up to this point, consequences a sort of far-off threat/promise. Not any more. From here on out, you either do the thing or you spend the next seven months annoyed that you did not do the thing. Of the 16 teams lining out this weekend, only Armagh have nothing immediate to play for. Win, lose or draw, they will top Group 4 and are guaranteed an All-Ireland quarter-final place. But even at that, knocking Galway out would be a delicious way to round off the group stage. Regular as clockwork, the moaning has begun. You know it, you hear it, you can feel it in the air. 'Why?' trill the voices. Why are we ditching this format to bring in yet another one next year? Typical GAA, getting rid of something just when it starts to get good. READ MORE To which the only sane response is, Jesus effing wept! Are people's memories really this short? Have they genuinely forgotten the reasons this stuff is changing? We surely can't be that easily distracted. Can we? Maybe we can. Maybe this is the ultimate tribute to the Football Review Committee . Jim Gavin is big on KPIs – or, Key Performance Indicators for the people whose lives are mercifully free of LinkedIn's assault on the language. But even he couldn't have imagined that one of the markers of the effect of the new football rules would be to make people forget the flaws in the format of the championship. It's worth restating, just for clarity. This is still 24 games to get rid of just four teams. It's still the case that some counties who have lost three matches aren't yet gone from the championship. It's still the case that some of them might not even need to win this weekend to progress. Since the championship began at the start of April, the collective record of Derry , Clare , Roscommon and Cork reads: Played 15, Won 3, Drew 2, Lost 10. All three wins came against Division Four opposition. Yet they're all still nominally in with a shout. [ All-Ireland Series permutations: All to play for as group stage comes to close Opens in new window ] The Rossies have posted one victory since the start of the championship, a 19-point win over London, who went on to be one of only two teams not to win a game in the Tailteann Cup. Yet as long as they get at least a draw against Cork in Portlaoise, Davy Burke's side will go through to the last 12. Derry sit alongside London and Waterford as the only teams in the country not to win a game in the 2025 championship so far. Yet they can feasibly still go through even if they lose to Dublin in Newry. It's unlikely, yes. But it's far from impossible. If the Dubs beat them by one and Armagh beat Galway by five, Paddy Tally's side sails on. Three defeats and one draw from four games and they would be just as alive in the championship as Armagh are. Armagh's Rian O'Neill celebrates a two point score with Óisín Conaty against Dublin in Round 2 of the championship earlier this month. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho So when someone asks you why the silly, meddling GAA had to go messing around with the format again, this is why. It's football sponsored by Hotel California – teams are checking out all over the country but still finding it very hard to leave. That won't happen next year. As soon as you lose two games in the 2026 Sam Maguire, your season is done. As for why it feels like it has worked better this year than before, the reasons are pretty simple. The first, plainly, is the new rules. It was bad enough that the championship structure was full of holes under the old rules – actually sitting through the games made it so much worse. Whatever you like or don't like about the new rules, everyone can see that the sport is more engaging now. The lulls and longueurs in which to contemplate the pointlessness of the format just aren't there any more. But there's a deeper and far more obvious reason too – and one that Gavin is blue in the face telling people that no changes to the playing rules or format will ever be able to affect. The field is flatter now than it's been in ages, maybe even in generations. Dublin are sixth in the betting. The next three after them are Monaghan, Mayo and Derry. So, essentially, you have nine teams that can either win the All-Ireland or be the spoke in the wheel for one of the others. When was that ever the case before? You probably have to go back to something like 1999. Galway were defending All-Ireland champions that year but got beaten by Mayo in the Connacht final, who then lost the All-Ireland semi-final to Cork. Cork were league champions but hadn't beaten Kerry in Munster in four years. Armagh won Ulster despite starting out fifth in the betting behind Donegal, Derry, Down and Tyrone. Kildare were defending Leinster champions but couldn't beat Offaly, who couldn't beat Meath. Dublin couldn't either. It all washed out as a Meath v Cork All-Ireland final, with anything up to half a dozen counties watching on, full sure they were a match for either of them. This year has precisely that kind of feel. When people say the championship is wide open, they're being polite. What they really mean is that every team is flawed and looks beatable. Kerry are favourites but haven't been tested. Armagh are probably the best around, but nobody's scared of them. Everyone else has lost at least once already. When the landscape looks like that, the format doesn't matter a damn. Just throw the ball up and get on with it.
The Sun
12-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
M'sian quits after receiving RM85 ‘token of appreciation'
WHILE many teachers quietly endure under appreciation, one international school educator has had enough — after receiving a measly amount as a 'Token of Appreciation'. In a post on Threads, the teacher shared a snapshot of her so-called 'Token of Appreciation' letter from her employer, which awarded her RM85 for exceeding her Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in 2024. 'Perfect work, always on time, KPI above 90%, but this is what I get? What can you even buy with RM85?' she wrote. The woman who works at an international school said that the amount left her feeling insulted — not rewarded. 'Decision: Resigned. ALSO READ: M'sian employee's hilariously honest resignation goes viral 'Don't let your dignity be dragged down by a company like this,' she declared at the end of her post — a line that's resonating strongly with readers. Her experience struck a nerve with many Malaysians, who jumped into the comments to share similar stories of disappointing recognition at work. 'Been there. Big company, publicly listed on Bursa Malaysia. Even with top-notch KPIs, they only gave an annual increment of RM60,' one user wrote. 'I've experienced the same — even worse, I got just RM50. Hahaha. So I figured, might as well not bother working after that. Started job hunting... then I left,' said another. 'It's kind of funny — working yourself to the bone, exhausted, and all you get is RM85,' added @elena_raisya. READ MORE: M'sians share how traffic jam led to them resigning jobs
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Compliance Scorecard Releases Major Platform Upgrade with Enhanced Security Awareness Training, Risk Intelligence, and Compliance Automation
Company to Showcase Latest Innovations at Pax8 Beyond 2025 DOVER, N.H., June 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compliance Scorecard™, a Compliance as a Service (CaaS) platform provider, today announced significant new features that redefine how MSPs deliver Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) – with real-time metrics, streamlined audit readiness and customizable client governance capabilities. "Our latest release reflects what MSPs have been asking for – less noise, more context, and real metrics that map directly to frameworks like CMMC, HIPAA, FTC Safeguards and SOC 2," said Tim Golden, Founder and CEO of Compliance Scorecard. "It's not just a checklist anymore. We're helping MSPs prove compliance with confidence." Security Awareness Training is no longer a checkbox. Frameworks including CIS Control 14 demand governance, metrics, and measurable outcomes. Compliance Scorecard is the first platform to give MSPs live SAT metrics that are tied to compliance frameworks and fully auditable. Compliance Scorecard's KPI engine allows MSPs and their clients to define custom success metrics including phishing click rate, quiz scores, or training frequency, and see progress over time. Key New Features: Security Awareness Training (SAT) Scorecard: Unified SAT dashboard and KPI tracking across Symbol Security, Huntress, CyberHoot, Phin and others. Metrics tie directly to client policies, SOPs, and user adoption, with CIS Control 14 addressed through policy-backed, real-time insights. Risk and Assessment Automation: Built-in RACI modeling (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) for assessment events, audit-aligned evidence fields (Examine, Interview, Test), and seamless connections between control objectives and the Risk Register. Policy and Adoption Engine: Unified policy templates for MSPs and clients, exportable adoption metrics, and customizable client email workflows for user invites, policy approvals and campaign tracking. Enhanced Platform Experience: Role-based access control with collapsible dashboards with persistent settings, and a mobile-optimized Trust Center and Knowledge Base for intuitive filtering and sorting. Compliance Scorecard will showcase the new release at Pax8 Beyond 2025, offering live demos, strategy sessions, and one-on-one consultations with its compliance experts. To learn more, visit or explore the offering in the Pax8 Marketplace. About Compliance Scorecard™ Compliance Scorecard is a leader in governance, risk, and compliance solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Built with a security-by-design philosophy, the platform simplifies compliance management, empowering MSPs to grow their business while protecting clients. With features such as policy management, risk registers, asset management, and SharePoint integration, Compliance Scorecard helps MSPs manage multiple clients and scale their compliance services with ease. Follow Compliance Scorecard on YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook. View source version on Contacts Media: Kim PegnatoLongview Strategies781-835-7118Kpegnato@ Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
