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Anything can be assessed. This bold assertion is the key to fixing many problems running a business and life generally. The myth that certain things can't be measured is a substantial drain on our nation's current economic climate, public welfare, the environment, and even countrywide security. In fact, the chances are good that some part of your life or your professional responsibilities is greatly harmed by too little measurement---by you, your firm, or even your federal government. Accumulating from simple principles to demonstrate the hands-on yet intuitively easy software of advanced statistical techniques, How to Measure Anything reveals the energy of measurement inside our understanding of business and the world most importantly. This insightful and participating book demonstrates how to measure those ideas in your business that until now you may have considered "immeasurable," including technology ROI, organizational overall flexibility, customer satisfaction, and technology risk. Offering samples that will get you to try measurements---even when it seems impossible---this book provides you with the substantive steps for calculating anything, especially uncertainty and risk. Don't wait---listen to the book and find out:
- The three explanations why things may seem to be immeasurable but are not
- Inspirational examples of where seemingly impossible measurements were solved with remarkably simple methods
- How computing the value of information will show that you almost certainly have been calculating all the wrong things
- How never to measure risk
- Methods for calculating "soft" things such as happiness, satisfaction, quality, and more
- How to fine-tune individuals judges to be powerful, calibrated way of measuring instruments
- How you can use the web as a musical instrument of way of measuring