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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

Stephen has introduced innovative methods and metrics to the project management discipline and has taught project management at universities and for organizations worldwide, including Siemens, Ford, Qatar Telecom, and the US Air Force. To have real integration to support decision-making, we need a single metric that works for all parameters.

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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

If they get funded, they can perform the research, write up their results in the form of a manuscript and then try to get the manuscript published in a scientific journal. The more interesting and impactful the research the more likely it will be published in a top tier journal with more readers. Using the metrics for decision making.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection.

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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business

This, most probably, is what Vasquez meant when she said that the firm plans “to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so we reach the biggest global audience possible.” Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. That’s a shame for journalism and for the rest of us.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

Our article in the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance discusses factors that can effectively “push” HR measures and analysis to audiences in a more impactful way, as well as factors that can effectively lead others to “pull” that data for analysis throughout the organization.

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6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

Harvard Business

What are job goals and key success metrics? You can capture feedback and learning by keeping a journal. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career. Understand what you’re evaluated on. What does success look like in your position? Listen to and thank your boss for the feedback. Codify your learnings.