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The latest news and insights from the team at Hubbard Decision ResearchSpring 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 ‘brand’ or ‘customer experience’ that are intangible and thus cannot be measured.” We would argue that this is a completely false assumption and that there is no such thing as an “intangible.” Incidentally, ‘brand’ and ‘CX’...
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 – as an example. Perhaps you were deciding on a CRM platform, an upgrade to your replenishment or logistics software… – 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. I take Jack's side on this. For those of you who have read my books, NIST 800-30 is one of the standards...
Evaluating Desert Restoration for the United Nations Environmental Program
Hubbard Decision Research conducted an analysis on behalf of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) to determine the impact of restoring an overgrazed area of Inner Mongolia known as the Kubuqi Desert. Once a green pastureland, this area along the Yellow...
Where Standards are Worth Over $1 Billion
Hubbard Decision Research showed how standards are worth more than $1 billion per year in the insurance industry. ACORD is a not-for-profit association created by the insurance industry to facilitate the development of standards for its members. Most major insurance...
