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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.

Metrics 88
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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. Siegler at G.V.,

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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. Eyeballs Instead of Experiences.

Data 109
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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.

Metrics 133
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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.

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. A Journal of Brand Management paper shows that four in 10 employees struggle to describe their organization’s brand or how they think customers feel their organization is different from competitors. This kind of engagement is missing at most organizations.

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