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The rule of 30: The metric your job search needs

CIO Business Intelligence

Lamoreaux Search In January 2007, she founded SIM Women, a networking and career development organization within the Society for Information Management. It sounds like Kristen’s “Rule of 30” is a quantifiable metric to apply to your power-broker network. Kristen Lamoreaux, president and CEO, Lamoreaux Search. Or better yet, hire them?

Metrics 105
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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO. July 2007: Autonomy pays $375 million for content archiving and electronic discovery specialist Zantaz. October 2007: Autonomy acquires data management specialist Meridio for £20 million. Whitman hires PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate.

Software 105
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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly on Data

But that’s not really how the world works, not now, and not back in 2007. Lines of code are easy to count, but if that’s your only metric, you will lose track of qualities like readability that may be more important. Less repetition, but the result was more complex and harder to understand.

Software 304
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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

Metrics 156
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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.

Occam's Razor

Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics. Here are the definitions you'll find in my books: Metric : A metric is a number. Time on Page is a metric.

Strategy 263
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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

Later, the ITIL Refresh Project in 2007 consolidated the ITIL to five volumes consisting of 26 process and functions — this is referred to as the ITIL 2007 edition. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office.

IT 105
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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Given how important sustainability metrics are to companies and their stakeholders, it is crucial to identify why it is taking so long for some organizations to jump on board with new technological innovations to implement meaningful change. of CO2 in 2007, the industry has now risen to 4% today and will potentially reach 14% by 2040. .