Big Decisions Blog
The latest news and insights from the team at Hubbard Decision ResearchCybersecurity and Project Management Professionals
Itâs no secret we live in a world of opinions but as Deming put it, âwithout data you are just another person with an opinion.â In our business of decision science, we teach that, if there is a chance of being wrong, and a cost of being wrong it can be measured. Said...
Predictive Analytics: Thought Leaders
Letters after names are really, REALLY common these days. In my parentsâ generation you might see M.D., or even J.D., but that was about it. Today, post-nominal initials are hard to keep up with: CSRTE? FAcEM??. I have an MBA and someone recently asked me why those...
Spring 2017 Training Schedule
Our Spring 2017 training schedule is booking up quickly - check dates and times below.  Project managers should take note of our sessions specifically designed for those tough measurement areas like PM effectiveness, project success, benefits realization, chance of...
Brand, Customer Experience and Other “Intangibles”
People often tell me there are things like âbrandâ or âcustomer experienceâ that are intangible and thus cannot be measured.â Â We would argue that this is a completely false assumption and that there is no such thing as an âintangible.â Incidentally, âbrandâ and âCXâ...
Authors, Professors, and a Nobel Laureate
 When I joined HDR I had the privilege to begin working with the thought leadership in predictive analytics.  Doug, our founder, had already published his ground-breaking book, How to Measure Anything, that showed the business community that so-called intangibles...
How to Measure Project Success
Ilya Pozin has written an article on inc.com that discusses how to be more efficient in a project and how to ensure that your team knows what success should look like. This article gives a good way to decompose aspects of project success, but I found myself thirsting...
The Measurement Inversion
Think about the last time your company was faced with an investment in information technology â as an example. Perhaps you were deciding on a CRM platform, an upgrade to your replenishment or logistics software⊠â you can imagine such a scenario.  Regardless of the...
NIST 800-30 still has defenders
Jack Jones, the inventor of the FAIR method for assessing cybersecurity risk, comments on a defense of NIST 800-30 by someone who commented on one of his blogs. Â I take Jack's side on this. Â For those of you who have read my books, NIST 800-30 is one of the standards...
