In the “Ecology of Metrics,” I wrote about “alignment” being a type of metric; alignment can measure the extent to which an organization’s supply or capacity is matched against the demands or needs of the market. For instance, in a call centre, it would be highly desirable to have agents available to respond to calls at “precisely” the same time that clients are making calls. If alignment is off even by only 15 to 30 seconds, impatient clients might hang up and never call again. Similarly…
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Sometimes when dealing with performance metrics, there are contradictory signals. For instance, although both are desirable, it is common for efficiency and efficacy to be in opposition. An agent in a call centre can handle lots of calls while at the same time getting few sales; this is especially true if the agent’s main objective is to do lots of calls. This is a highly efficient person albeit unsuccessful in terms of expanding the business. Conversely, another agent by spending a…
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The following simulation is based on a presentation that I attended in the 1990s. I was an investment junkie back then. I sat down, and I listening to people speak about their ideas on making money - on television and sometimes live. The presenter in this case was trying to explain that investment success is sometimes a matter of chance. He had people in the audience stand up. He asked them to guess heads or tails. Those that were correct continued to the next round - to guess again -…
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The term “technical analysis” usually refers to the study of stock prices. A technical analyst might use real-time or closing prices of stocks to predict future prices. This is an interesting concept because of what is normally excluded from the analysis - namely, everything except prices. Given that the approach doesn’t necessarily consider the health or profitability of the underlying companies, a purely technical approach seems to offer guidance that is disconnected from reality. Yet…
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"Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11-6,7) On the distance between expression, meaning, and action resulting from growth of populations and…
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