dienstwaardes

Dienstwaarde (plural dienstwaarden) is a Dutch term used in several domains to denote the value assigned to a service, task, or duty for evaluation, pricing, or measurement purposes. The spelling dienstwaardes can appear in some sources, but dienstwaarden is the standard plural in contemporary Dutch.

Etymology: The word combines dienst (service, duty) with waarde (value).

Usage and contexts: The term is primarily found in Dutch-language documentation and technical writing across fields such as public administration, logistics, insurance, and information technology. In these contexts, dienstwaarde functions as a parameter that enables comparison of services, calculation of costs, or assessment of performance. Because it is domain-specific, its exact definition and method of calculation vary between organizations and applications. In practice, it may refer to the official value assigned to a service for budgeting, to a declared value used in contracts, or to a quantified metric used in service management.

Examples: In public services, a dienstwaarde might indicate the standard value used to measure delivery against a service level. In logistics, it can denote a value used for pricing or insurance purposes. In IT service management, it may represent a measured value of a service’s performance, such as availability or response time, used in dashboards or reports.

See also: Waarde, Dienst, Service level agreement, Service quality, Performance metric.