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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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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

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc bills their new strategy as “the future of journalism,” but if anything it their shiny new digital strategy seems mired in the recent past. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

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We REALLY Need to Stop Talking About Lean

Markovitz Consulting

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric. Culp has also shifted focus away from earnings per share, which was once the most important metric at GE. Or some Japanese thing that only works for car manufacturers. But this practice isn’t something exclusive to lean.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

Digitally-challenged media giants such as Bloomberg launch robo-journalism initiatives that empower software to custom-craft stories for subscribers with minimal human intervention. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”