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Whither Real Interest Rates for the next 30 Years?

Andrew White

China joined the WTO in 2001 lowering, at a stroke, global wages. It has been declining or flat for 20-30 years, depending on what metrics you use. But as rates go up, returns on capital increase, and so your ROI promises for that next big IT, digital or AI project, has to grow too.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL 4 contains seven guiding principles that were adopted from the most recent ITIL Practitioner Exam, which covers organizational change management, communication, and measurement and metrics. million ROI over three years, and Capital One reduced its “business critical” incidents by 92% over two years. How does ITIL reduce costs?

IT 100
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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Use metrics that matter: Loyalty, Recency , Net Profit, Conversation Rate, Message Amplification , Brand Evangelist Index , Customer Lifetime Value and so on and so forth. Example: Spending $50,000 on building links when you can't measure ROI."

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