In measurement, a contractor measures the volume of gravel online rather than with a measuring stick.
Beginning from these touch points, your director of analytics can develop a strategy to drive your investments in measurement technologies.
The New York firefighters' union, which is seeking to reverse cuts to staffing, has said the change in measurement has produced only apparent improvement, not real change.
Whether your business is media, financial services, retailing, B2B, or even non-profit, your director of analytics should be able to rattle off your key customer touch points, tell you the current strategies for measuring those touch points and let you know which touch points would most benefit from improvements in measurement.
Beyond that, it almost goes without saying that this news is extremely exciting for marketers, as it legitimizes the argument to pursue social TV initiatives with the confidence in measurement that only a Nielsen can provide, thus creating a real market for new approaches, startups and content in the TV space and allowing for new lanes of marketing innovation.
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That said, it paid to be in some sectors in the measurement period and not to be in others.
The event will aim at disseminating the results of studies and good practices in education assessment and measurement in Latin America.
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We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts.
Even by the standards of economic data, they are imprecise, thanks to differences in the measurement of inflation.
But they will likely need much more information to close the uncertainties that remain in the measurement of the Higgs' mass and its other properties.
The last phase is creating the specific action plan, executing it, and then putting in the measurement and technology systems needed to support the execution.
The project aims to help fill the current gap in existing measurement studies by satellites and submarines - which cannot differentiate between ice and snow layers.
In fact, Compensation Committees will benefit by adopting a more open and inquisitive approach to selecting a consultant that factors in independence, expertise in performance measurement, and strategic capabilities.
That impact cannot be ignored in setting measurement standards.
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"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.
Maestas is the president of Navigate Research, a firm specializing in research, measurement and analysis of sponsorships in sports and entertainment.
After a brief sojourn as a graduate student in Stanford's electrical engineering doctoral program, Mallon took over at Measurement in 1995.
One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.
She uses the organizational framework of modular design, in which children learn to use objects that are categorized by geometric shape and mathematical measurement in separate containers.
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The government implemented the MTOPS measurement in the early 1990s to differentiate supercomputers from low-end computers.
With a process for effective marketing measurement in place, it is essential that all relevant staff be aligned.
In the Gini measurement, zero means perfect equality and 1 means total inequality.
The new paper represents the last of the four mesons that had never been seen flipping from matter to antimatter and back in a single measurement.
The adjective "sole" has become a key measurement in diplomatic circles where U.S. nuclear forces have long been seen as an impediment to stopping nuclear proliferation.
While typically monitored through satellite imagery direct validation of chlorophyll blooms at this resolution provides a groundbreaking link between scientific modeling and in-situ measurement of the Pacific Ocean.
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In addition to income measurement, a research team led by Professor Zhou Xiaohong in Nanjing University further defined middle class occupations as professionals in management and technology, entrepreneurs, private business owners, and civil servants (meaning government officials).
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
For example, spearheaded by the Institute of Public Relations, the lead research and measurement organization in the public relations business, a number of public relations organizations have come together to develop universal measurement standards.
Finally in terms of company disposition the measurement is whether the company, in this case Apple, was better off after he ran it.
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