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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

That's another form of centralization and what organizations refer to as economies of scale. Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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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. Marketing and word of mouth help with that Acquisition.) How have you helped with any of the Pirate Metrics or increasing net income?

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Maximizing Retail Success

Business Consulting Agency

In the digital age, the success of retail brands hinges significantly on their online presence and marketing strategies. With consumers increasingly turning to online shopping, having a well-marketed retail website is paramount for attracting customers, driving sales, and building brand loyalty.

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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. How to Build Your IP You can build your IP, also known as your content for marketing, in many ways. Another of my favorites because I have permission from my subscribers to market to them. I focus on writing and speaking.

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The Chief Project Officer: Roles and Responsibilities

Epicflow

A Chief Project Officer can have a significant impact on organizational success: they help organizations achieve their business objectives, drive innovation, and remain competitive in the market. References Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez. It’s also important to be able to perform financial analysis and assess project profitability.

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The Key to Agile Success? Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster. Are we building the right thing?

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