To drive results, data must shape decisions in real time. That means prioritizing clarity, ownership and follow-through. When ...

The Takeaway: What's the difference between a "vanity metric" and an actionable one? Ries explains with two contrasting examples: Consider the most basic of all reports: the total number of 'hits' to ...

The reason? They simply don’t realize how important measurement is. What a team accomplishes in its day-to-day tasks has a direct impact on the success of the product. To overcome this dilemma, I ...

Even though small businesses and marketers are expected to collect and analyze data, many stop their analytics at the first, easiest step: Pageviews (or likes, or followers). These so-called vanity ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

First, what is flow? Daniel Vacanti describes it simply as "the movement and delivery of customer value through a process” (Vacanti in Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability). As such, it’s what ...

The broad project management sector has been seeking ways to reorient itself to meet client demands in an increasingly mercurial and fluid world. A related challenge is determining what metrics should ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Agencies ask, “We're doing Agile by the book, yet we are still struggling to reap the ...

Startup Source Metrics is announcing a new feature to its social marketing tools today, which it’s calling the Social Media Inbox. The idea of a new social network listening tool may not set anyone’s ...