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How to Measure Anything:

Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 7, 2010 - Business & Economics - 320 pages

Now updated with new research and even more intuitive explanations, a demystifying explanation of how managers can inform themselves to make less risky, more profitable business decisions

This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business that, until now, you may have considered "immeasurable," including customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility, technology risk, and technology ROI.

  • Adds even more intuitive explanations of powerful measurement methods and shows how they can be applied to areas such as risk management and customer satisfaction
  • Continues to boldly assert that any perception of "immeasurability" is based on certain popular misconceptions about measurement and measurement methods
  • Shows the common reasoning for calling something immeasurable, and sets out to correct those ideas
  • Offers practical methods for measuring a variety of "intangibles"
  • Adds recent research, especially in regards to methods that seem like measurement, but are in fact a kind of "placebo effect" for management – and explains how to tell effective methods from management mythology

Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard-creator of Applied Information Economics-How to Measure Anything, Second Edition illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods.

  

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Review: How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

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There is a lot of good information here but it is more of a text book and very dry. I read this book because I have to make decisions every day. Some decisions are very easy because I have the intell ...

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User Review  - David - Goodreads

Provides a range of useful ways to estimate quantities. More generally, it gives a good idea on how to reason statistically about the world. Some sections are lighter than others; for example the ... Read full review

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Contents

Preface
THE SOLUTION EXISTS 1
Eratosthenes
Contents
BEFORE YOU MEASURE 45
How Much Do You Know Now? 57
Measuring Risk through Modeling 79
Measuring the Value of Information 99
How Observing Some Things
Adding to What You Know Now 177
Contents
BEYOND THE BASICS 201
New Measurement Instruments for Management 251
Contents ix
Index 299
Copyright

Contents vii

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About the author (2010)

DOUGLAS W. HUBBARD is the inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE), a measurement methodology that has been used in IT portfolios, entertainment media, military logistics, R&D portfolios, and many more areas where big decisions are based on factors that seem difficult or impossible to measure. He is an internationally recognized expert in metrics, decision analysis, and risk management, and is a popular speaker at numerous conferences. He has written articles for InformationWeek, CIO Enterprise, Architecture Boston, Analytics and OR/MS Today and is also the author of The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It.

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