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Don't Let Your North Star Metric Deceive You

Brian Balfour

We’ve all heard the rallying cry of the “One Metric That Matters”. But blindly buying into the concept of the one metric that matters (OMTM) is a fatal oversimplification. The one key metric can make you think that is not important.” 4 Reasons OMTM is Misleading Even the name “One Metric That Matters” is problematic.

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How to Measure HR Effectiveness with 12 Key Metrics

15Five

According to Gartner, 58% of organizations say a lack of relevant metrics to track HR progress is one of the top barriers to effective strategic planning. Most other business functions have a standard set of metrics that show the effectiveness of their team and how they’re contributing to the company’s bottom line (e.g.,

Metrics 105
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6 User Adoption Strategies for Growing SaaS Businesses

Help Scout Leadership

For B2B SaaS companies, user adoption is one of the most important elements to get right in order to grow sustainably. Appcues found that activation (when customers experience the core value of the product) is the most important pirate metric for SaaS growth. 6 user adoption strategies for B2B SaaS businesses.

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Stop Using The Wrong Inventory Metrics

Chief Executive

Yesterday’s core inventory metrics — inventory turnover (cost of goods ÷ average inventory) and inventory GMROI (gross margin ÷ inventory cost) — fail to provide the essential information that managers need to avoid the twin problems of missing critical potential profits while having to write off large tranches of costly inventory.

Metrics 98
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Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays

Andrew Chen

James Currier (of NFX) pens one of the classics of the last few years, defining the term “Market Network” – multiple participants, SaaS tools, with transactions at the center. Andrei Brasovean (Accel) gives a comprehensive list of Marketplace metrics. Read the whole thing here: [link]. 6) Referrals flow freely.

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Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look

Andrew Chen

Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? If you’re at a big company and another team publishes a test result, make sure you agree on the actual final metric you’re trying to impact – whether that’s revenue, highly engaged users, or something else. When a +10% isn’t really a +10%.

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It’s Budget Time. Are You Maximizing Profits?

Chief Executive

The basic problem with budgeting today is that the core budget categories, like revenues, gross margin and costs are aggregate measures that show whether a company is profitable, but not where it is making and losing money. For example, one beverage distribution company budgets its revenue by brand and geographic branch.

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