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Metrics Save Lives

May 28, 2007 3:10 pm

Isn’t that amazing? The institution of a way to monitor and quantify information ended up leading to the saving of millions (over the years) of lives. Develop a metric that truly measures what you need and then follow its advice.

Digging around in her archives, I found the Evil HR Lady discussing the Apgar score for infants, and why we don’t have something similar for students, despite the fact that most of them have quantifiable and comparable performance metrics.

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