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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. An organization has certain project management processes and corresponding documentation, but they aren’t standardized. An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

” Step 2: Do benchmarking. Here you “benchmark the key revenue and cost metrics in your business against the market and against firms offering the most-comparable products.” Step 4: Document assumptions. Ask yourself “what would need to be true to achieve the outcomes you are seeking.”

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

As a rule, a project manager creates this document at the planning stage and needs essential data about the project. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

Harvard Business

In a famous example (at least, it’s famous if you’re into this kind of thing), in March 1951, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates published a document suggesting that a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia within the year was a “serious possibility.”

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