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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Don't worry.

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Hey, What’s Going On?

CaseInterview.com

It’s important to be constantly monitoring key performance metrics so you can tell what’s going on in your business quantitatively. Yes, the metrics say they are happy but are they really actually happy?) If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong. Talk to customers.

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Money as Communication: A Purposely "Non-Educational" Fallacious Video by the Atlanta Fed

MishTalk

But if people are going to communicate with one another about value, those communications are going to be most effective if done using some standardized metric—and that''s where money comes in. We recently produced a simple four-minute video on the subject. And that sentence alone says how ridiculous the video is. Of course not!

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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Beyond our experience at the firms themselves, which we’ve incorporated into our MC-specific scoring guide, we do have 550+ case studies in our Case Bank from firms and consulting clubs across the country – and we’ve used these scoring charts on all of them. Advanced Case Interviews – A Video Overview.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

The Youtube video below discusses the three stages of money and Keen’s first three claims (watch it at 2x speed). If Keen is sincere in his belief that gold is not money, then he should find it truly baffling that the US holds more than 8,000 metric tons of gold in reserve. Economies can and should save.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure. Related Video.

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

metric tons, or 0.3 stock markets and China’s stock market as well,” Victor Thianpiriya, an analyst at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. Link if video does not play: Jimmy Jones - Good Timin' The precious metals slump will reverse. to China hurt demand and prospects for rising U.S. interest rates boosted the dollar.

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