Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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Marketing Metrics EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Marketing is no longer characterised by spontaneous investments. Marketing performance is controlled and diagnosed on a continuous basis‚ making the need for simple‚ but comprehensive measures/metrics to do so even more important. There are aspects of Marketing that can be identified‚ separated and measured. The effectiveness of a Company’s marketing department is often measured
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Marketing Metrics At the beginning of The Balanced Scorecard‚ a book on the new generation of performance metrics‚ authors-Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton present an analogy to drive home their case. They ask you to imagine entering an airline jet cockpit‚ and in front of the pilot‚ you see just one gauge. You ask the pilot‚ "What’s that gauge measure?" "Altitude"‚ you’re told. "What about the other gauges?" "We won’t be using them this flight. I’m just focusing on altitude." "How about
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STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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Apple’s Business Models Analysis and Suggestion with Web 2.0 Strategy Student Name: Sun Shaoyun HKU No.2013951569 Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Apple’s Business Model .................................................................................................................... 3 2.1. Elements of successful business model ...........
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HR Metrics for Employee Engagement Submitted by: Abhishek Bansal (A003) Pranav Kamath (A012) Aanchal Maria (A018) Kritika Thakur (A029) Contents INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 3 EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ...................................................... 4 HR METRIC ............................................................................ 5 HR METRICS & EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT .............................. 6 Annexure ......
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tenure‚ the respect of colleagues and so on. The organisation’s rewards systems may applied to the first motive and job design to the latter. Much research has sought to discover the sources of motivation is tentative and no definite conclusions can be advanced. For instance‚ "Social philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill asserted that humans are driven by the desire to obtain pleasure and avoid pain. And B.F.Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning implied that
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Other measurement units such as the metric system aren’t as useful as the SI system when it comes to being used in science. The metric system doesn’t have moles or kelvins‚ which are very important in the use of science. There are many more reasons why the SI system should continue to be used in science for measurement‚ and I’m going to explain why. National governments adopt one system of measurement because it is the most simple or most useful‚ much like how science adopts one system. The most
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MCM 723 Metrics and Analytics December 2‚ 2012 Think 4 A. Describe cost-based pricing and value-based pricing‚ noting the differences in approach and results. Give examples of products or services priced each way‚ and justify your reasoning. How could cost-based pricing lead to a price lower than customers would have paid and how does this impact the profit of a business? The Cost- based pricing concept is regulating the cost of production or fulfillment as the basis for pricing goods and
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. Performance Metrics: purpose What are the ways you can measure how successful your Six Sigma project has been in improving quality or decreasing the number of defects? Before we go into the metrics and definitions‚ let’s say what “defects” and “defective” mean. Something has a defect if the result or outcome of a process is not what is expected. Something went wrong. The product may still be usable: a car with chipped paint can still be driven. So some engineers use “defective” to mean a product
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