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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. The first step to understanding a new set of metrics is to put them into context. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the metrics.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Next, How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions Part 2 , I explained how to think about the value of work instead of predicted costs. Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost.

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Most Important Metrics to Track for a Consulting Business: Video

Consulting Success

Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals. These four metrics give you a lot of information.

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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? Let’s delve into these issues.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects. How to assess the current health of your database while working with a B2B contact data provider. What to look for before entering a buyer’s agreement with a vendor.

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How to Know if You’re Successful at Consulting

David A Fields

How do you know if you’re doing well at the consulting game? Those are okay metrics; however, if you look around your office you’ll find a better clue. The post How to Know if You’re Successful at Consulting appeared first on David A. Client feedback? Who’s In … Continued.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. How have you helped with any of the Pirate Metrics or increasing net income? But if you didn’t use the flow metrics?

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