Board Effect
MARCH 15, 2022
Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. These are the metrics by which hospitals can and should be assessing their governance practices. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.
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ConversionXL
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.
alexpoole.info
AUGUST 14, 2012
Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Case study: Icon design. Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. The blog is fantastic as well. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill.
Cracking the Code
DECEMBER 9, 2006
Paris, November 1998. Just happened to run across your blog after our call, and had a good laugh over this story! Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. First week on the job.
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