Mr. Hurd became known for his flip chart and his ability to distill each business decision to a set of metrics that could determine how profitable a move would be, said former colleagues.

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What we need, a growing number of CEOs understand, is a new set of metrics for a new reality.

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As such, we decided upon a simple set of metrics that best approximated real-world threats, that is, to try to test for attacks actually used by attackers.

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With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.

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Looking to improve component availability in final assembly, they ranked worst performing facilities on a small set of key metrics.

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Yelp also added a set of new dashboard metrics for business owners.

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There hasn't been much strong data to support it, and good governance metrics can be based on a different set of values than those held by a broad investor base.

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They would open it, set a few metrics and run it in the the background of their computer to join in.

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While a company set to be the next big thing can dramatically throw out these kinds of metrics because of its spectacular potential, there comes a point where the law of scale kicks in and promise must turn into reality.

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If you believe this historic range of returns set up a reasonably stable constant like gravity, then building companies with these metrics in mind is critical.

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