If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

Investors favor companies that “skimp” on R&D, Ashley Vance recently reported in BloombergBusinessweek. You shouldn’t be shocked. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has warned ...

A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but research suggests a spoon is a lousy way to measure out that medicine. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food and Drug ...

Measuring performance is a key to evaluating how well employees are doing their work and companies are meeting their targets. A good performance metric gives hard data and yields results that measure ...

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. IBM created the Quantum Volume metric to measure the power of quantum computers. Quantum Computers have the potential to be vastly more powerful than ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

Industry and government have put a premium on data center energy efficiency, frequently using energy efficiency metrics. But the metrics haven't always been applied clearly and consistently. A task ...

You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

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