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4 Ways to Get More Value from Your Project Task Duration Data

PM Alliance

With a project management methodology that emphasizes the development of well-informed task duration information, you already have data within your organization that could help trim costs, streamline resource management, and shift your continuous improvement efforts into overdrive. 2: Compare task duration estimates against actual reporting.

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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Image 1: Illustrative example of a bank’s net interest income and margin Source: CIBC’s 2022 Annual Report 1.2 In a scenario where earnings estimates are declining (usually driven by weakening credit conditions or weak capital markets), investors tend to focus on the price-to-book (P/B) valuation methodology.

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The EU Needs to Make Sure Continental Countries Don’t Exit

Harvard Business

The UK Treasury’s 200-page April 2016 report, blandly titled “The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives,“ seems a useful, well-executed benchmark. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

Collectively, these four dimensions provide a comprehensive framework for calibrating digital trust, facilitating cross-country comparisons and benchmarking. As we explained earlier, user behavior is more relevant as a trust measure than what users report in attitude surveys. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

The reasons change doesn’t often happen are reporting paralysis, the lack of “think time,” and failure to collaborate. Reporting paralysis can occur when teams are so wrapped up in distributing data, ensuring data quality, or writing up insights that they forget the purpose of data.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.