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Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

CIO Business Intelligence

Mark Twain famously remarked that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. Therefore, CIOs must be cautious about taking metrics at face value [and] leaders need to understand the data behind the metrics.”.

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How Good Leaders Keep Data in Perspective

Smart Data Collective

With better benchmarks, KPIs, and statistics , business leaders can better understand their environments and ultimately make more objective, logical decisions. Key performance indicators (KPIs) can serve as excellent measuring sticks that guide your progress and allow you to define and evaluate success.

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Smarten Announces SnapShot Anomaly Monitoring Alerts: Powerful Tools for Business Users!

Smarten

Smarten CEO, Kartik Patel says, ‘Smarten SnapShot supports the evolving role of Citizen Data Scientists with interactive tools that allow a business user to gather information, establish metrics and key performance indicators.’

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5 Ways Data Analytics Sets a New Standard for Revenue Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics refers to the systematic computational analysis of statistics or data. Data analytics make up the relevant key performance indicators ( KPIs ) or metrics necessary for a business to create various sales and marketing strategies. It lays a core foundation necessary for business planning.

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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.

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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.

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Your Ultimate Guide To Modern KPI Reports In The Digital Age – Examples & Templates

datapine

Typically presented in the form of an interactive dashboard , this kind of report provides a visual representation of the data associated with your predetermined set of key performance indicators – or KPI data, for short. We’ve covered key performance indicators in addition to the power and importance of these kinds of reports.

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