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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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Standard Metrics Revisited: #4 : Time on Page & Time on Site

Occam's Razor

I was merrily using Time on Page and Time on Site metrics for quite some time before I actually realized how they were being measured. 111.111.111.111 - - [ 08/Oct/2007:11:17:55 -0400 ] "GET / index.html HTTP/1.1" It is important to note that the web metrics program will still say: Tp = 0 minutes. It was a real Doh (!)

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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.

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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. .

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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.

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Unlock the power of optimization in Amazon Redshift Serverless

AWS Big Data

Our elapsed time analysis demonstrates how each configuration achieved its performance objectives, as shown by the average consumption metrics for each endpoint, as shown in the following screenshot. He has been helping companies with Data Warehouse solutions since 2007.

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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.

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