Merchandising Analytics: Measuring In-Store Displays
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel 2019 was a busy year for new product development at Digital Mortar and we have three new products coming out this quarter. The most interesting ana...
Fixing Overly Tactical Metrics: Content Consumption Part II
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel If Views is overly tactical and encourages click-bait content, what's the right metric to replace it? Here are three strategies (all with relevance i...
Missing the Forest While Counting Trees : Content Consumption and Tactical Metrics
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Game-ability isn't the only way metrics can go wrong. Sometimes, a metric's problems are revealed when it accomplishes exactly what you intended with...
Gameable Metrics: College Board 2 : Students and Universities 0
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Not every metric that can be measured should be measured. Some metrics used as KPIs turn out to be easily gameable - resulting in an arms race to opt...
The Art of Facilitation: Jim Sterne Visits the Measurement Minute (10x)
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel If interviews are going to come to the Minute, why not start at the top? Jim Sterne's latest work focuses on bridging the gap between Marketing and M...
Just Because It’s Old Doesn’t Mean It’s Right
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Traditional opinion research and even Website surveys have been around for quite awhile now. So folks in the enterprise take their accuracy for gra...
Centralization Before Democratization
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Effective Democratization of Data requires...Centralization? That's the paradox of trying to get stakeholders to self-service. You can't, until you d...
Easy as Pie? The Failure of Reporting in the Enterprise
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Reporting is one of those things that everyone thinks are easy but that somehow always seem to end up not working very well. That turned out to be a ...
The McNamara Fallacy and the Cynicism Behind Bad Metrics
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Sometimes bad metrics just fool us. But often, the people using them have entirely cynical reasons for glomming onto the really stupid ones. Credit Y...