285 The myopia of metrics
Dave Snowden
JULY 31, 2018
Focus on the metrics and your vision is limited. The post The myopia of metrics appeared first on Cognitive Edge. I still have affectionate memories of my slide rule.
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metrics, thy name is vanity
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
But only one metric mattered: registrations. But by focusing on the only real metric, it is obvious that the audience for this workshop is not there. Ignoring vanity metrics will free my mind. They deserve my time more than the vanity metrics that may stroke my ego.
Malicious metrics
Clark Quinn
JUNE 4, 2014
Like others, I have been seduced by the “what X are you” quizzes on FaceBook. I certainly understand why they’re compelling, but I’ve begun to worry about just why they’re so prevalent. And I’m a wee bit concerned. People like to know things about themselves.
Big Data: Running out of Metric System…
Andy McAfee
OCTOBER 31, 2012
It turns out that in the era of big data, we’re about to run out of metric system: Yotta- , signifying 10^24, is the only metrix prefix left on the list. I recently came across two very different pieces of evidence showing how big a deal big data is.
Mapping metrics
Harold Jarche
MAY 11, 2009
Beth Kanter shares her presentation on Mapping metrics to strategy (with slide show) focused on non-profits using social media: The session will share an overview of why the sequence listen, learn, and adapt is critical to implementing a successful social media strategy.
Social Media Metrics
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
I continue to get asked about social learning metrics. Until we get around to a whitepaper or something on metrics, here’re some thoughts: Frankly, the problem with Kirkpatrick (sort of like with LMS’ and ADDIE, *drink*) is not in the concept, but in the execution. Frankly, even activity is a metric. Metrics for informal learning aren’t rocket science, but instead mapping of best principles into specific contexts.
Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech
Beth Kanter
MAY 27, 2015
Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. For example, if location information will prove useful in tracking place-based impacts, best to build this metric into registration from the start, rather than try to capture the information later.
Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 9, 2012
The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. These metrics are more qualitative in nature which makes them more difficult to define, capture, and track.
Jay’s new book on learning metrics
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MAY 25, 2009
This takes more than jargon and metrics. New book: What Would Andrew Do? by Jay Cross & friends. How to sell senior management on the value of learning. Preview and Table of Contents. 189 pages, $19.99 hard copy or download , $14.99 read-only.
ROI and Metrics in eLearning
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 16, 2007
I'm working on an article around the use of ROI and metrics in eLearning. BPM and workflow technologies have been able to achieve significant gains in productivity Metrics Recently, functional managers have begun using eLearning to meet business objectives. This is where w Return on Investment in Training - Learnativity.com The problem is that nobody is quite sure what the appropriate metrics are for measuring ROI for learning.
How To Make Sense of Your Social Media Metrics
Beth Kanter
MAY 31, 2013
I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.”
Nonprofit Social Media Mavens Are Curators of Metrics
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. One point that he keeps making over and over: Metrics must have meaning or else they’re just numbers.
What is your organization’s “One Metric That Matters”?
Beth Kanter
MARCH 5, 2013
The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” When you know what the right question is, you’ll know what metric to track in order to answer that question.
Is the New Facebook “People Talking About” Metric As Meaningless as Number of Likes?
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along. Photo by lecercle.
How To Use Facebook Metrics To Give Your Audience the Content They Want Most
Beth Kanter
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
I found this wonderful infographic that takes you through the process of setting goals, making them measurable, picking your metrics, and making decisions based on your data. What have you learned about what works best in using metrics to give your audience the content they want?
Notes from Mari Smith Facebook Changes Webinar: Privacy Settings and A New Metric – People Talking About
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.”
UX Metrics for Noobs and Skeptics: An Interview With Richard Dalton
Adaptive Path
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
So I guess it’s time for me to learn more about UX metrics. They say, if it moves measure it. I’ve been finding myself thinking a lot about how to measure UX lately — mainly to realize that I halfway don’t believe it’s possible. My gripe is that even if you can regularly track and look at numbers (itself no small feat), it’s hard to know what they mean exactly.
Greetings and Bathrooms: One CEO's Metrics for Retail Stores
Bob Sutton
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
" When I asked what the "warning signs" he looked for during store visits, signs that management was slipping, he offered two metrics (which he said could be applied to many others retail settings too): 1. Yesterday, we had the CEO of a large retail chain as a visitor in the Stanford class we Huggy Rao and I are teaching on scaling-up excellence. I will refrain from using his name as this a class, not a speech to the public.
Applying Avinash Kaushik’s Best Social Metrics Framework for the New Facebook Insights Data
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 11, 2011
What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?”
A Rough But Intriguing Metric for School Assessing a School.
Bob Sutton
JUNE 21, 2011
Evidence-Based Management in Action » A Rough But Intriguing Metric for School Assessing a School Principal. What do you think of this metric? Listed below are links to weblogs that reference A Rough But Intriguing Metric for School Assessing a School Principal : Comments. I am a teacher, among other things, and say can that yes that metric works- to a point. Agree it is an imperfect but potentially useful metric. Bob Sutton.
Return on Intangibles
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 6, 2013
That’s why Return on Intangibles is the most important metric in the CLO’s toolkit. Management Innovation Metrics of organizational learning Profit This article appears in the October 2013 issue of Chief Learning Officer. Understanding learning’s value depends on measuring what can’t be touched. . In his marvelous book Intellectual Capital , Tom Stewart asked, “ What’s new?
Measure what’s important
Jay Cross
JUNE 10, 2013
Just Jay Metrics of organizational learning In the last twenty years of the twentieth century, investors shifted from Industrial Age thinking to Knowledge Era thinking. The shift changed how owners value businesses.
How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (4)
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Community Metrics of organizational learning Working SmarterFourth post in a series. In case you missed them, here are the first , second , and third posts. Is your organization ready? How ready are you to tackle Big L Learning?
Calling shades of gray “black and white&#
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 2, 2011
MetricsRecognition of Non-formal and Informal Learning. Fifteen years ago, “the OECD education ministers agreed to develop strategies for ‘lifelong learning for all’ &# They still don’t have it right. Who are these guys?
It’s all relative
Jay Cross
JULY 17, 2010
There’s no cookie-cutter formula for applying metrics, but there is an underlying process. The Metrics Cycle. There’s no cookie-cutter formula for applying metrics, but there is an underlying process. The only valid metrics for corporate learning are business metrics.
10 pieces of advice on the web, workflow, & learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 27, 2010
ROI – Flaws in the Metrics System. Tags: General Informal Learning Metrics Social After a lengthy hibernation, Learning Light ’s eLearning Centre rides again! From a press release yesterday: Learning Light has now launched the new look and feel e-learning centre.
The Happy Bottom Line
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
Metrics of organizational learning Psychology Well-beingCLO , October 2012. When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’
Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.
Jay Cross
MARCH 14, 2010
Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics. Common measures are gain in market share, increased revenue, customer satisfaction, and other business metrics. Tags: Metrics of organizational learning
Showing the value of social media
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
Tags: Metrics of improving organizational learning
Secrets of Working Smarter
Jay Cross
MARCH 30, 2010
Those in the quantitative data/metrics/benchmarking camp argue against the legitimacy of the notion of “informal” learning. Informal Learning Meta-Learning Metrics of organizational learning Web 2.0Learning Solutions Magazine.
Learning on the Holodeck
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Tags: Metrics of organizational learning The process of Innovation
HRExaminer
Jay Cross
JUNE 12, 2010
Tags: Increasing profitability Making sound decisions Management Innovation Metrics of organizational learning
Value Networks
Jay Cross
JANUARY 11, 2010
Tags: Making sound decisions Management Innovation Metrics of organizational learning
Making business decisions: the hand and the heart
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Tags: Making sound decisions Metrics of organizational learning
Intangibles matter
Jay Cross
JANUARY 19, 2010
Cross then goes on to make the point about the way outcomes are measured; “First, the metrics that people have been using for the past 30 years— using accounting measures—are totally ridiculous. Tags: Metrics of organizational learning Leadership, Intangibles, and Talent Review.
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Steven Berlin Johnson
NOVEMBER 30, 2005
stevenberlinjohnson.com « The Battle Of The Books | Main | » "We have for years allowed ourselves to be held hostage to one metric only," says Jay R.
Strategic Doing is designed for open, loosely coupled networks
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
“In Strategic Doing, metrics play a different role. We use metrics to facilitate learning. Metrics provide a convenient tool to accelerate our learning. Tweet Comparing Strategic Planning and Strategic Doing.
What to evaluate?
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 22, 2019
To be fair (I know Will, and we had a comment exchange), he’s saying that there are important metrics we should be paying attention to about what we do and how we do it. Further, he does say we need to avoid what he calls ‘vanity metrics’, just how efficient we are.
The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor
Charles Jennings
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. These time-honoured metrics developed for an industrial age are not the answer. A parallel path to learning metrics.
Why you need to take a Google Analytics approach to measuring learning
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Today, L&D measures learning activities through metrics such as time-in-training, completion rates and test scores. Unfortunately, this isn''t the language the rest of the business speaks, because these metrics don''t prove that the provided training is working.
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