Prospective performance measurement in virtual organizations

The goal of prospective performance measurement is to support consortium building in Virtual Organizations. Through identification of possible partners and their potential contributions for realizing an order and comparison of possible consortia, the performance measurement can be used to identify and to evaluate the optimal network configuration. On the other hand, potential alternatives for partner selection can be identified and assessed, for example to guarantee the capacity to act, even if a partner omits. The crisp part of prospective performance measurement lies in recording well defined past performance data. This data is then used to forecast future performance by means of soft modeling. In a final step the forecast can be interpreted by traditional methods again.