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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

TechCrunch

Direct-to-consumer companies generate a wealth of raw transactional data that needs to be refined into metrics and dimensions that founders and operators can interpret on a dashboard. Evolving your startup’s data strategy. Start by identifying your critical metrics. Don’t rely on them after you’ve outgrown them.

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On the journey to Series B, strategy is more important than metrics

TechCrunch

Software founders have never had so many metrics thrown at them by VCs on how to run a business. We’ve never believed that great businesses are built solely on metrics or KPIs. Rather, we guide founders to build a strategy that helps them understand when to grow, when to pull back, when to spend and when to save.

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5 key metrics that help edtech startups improve profitability

TechCrunch

While some experts expect a second honeymoon period for edtech, founders in the space need to change their tactics and learn how to get more results with less money. As soon as you figure out what makes each of your strategies “effective” or “good,” you’ll succeed.

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Achieving Elite and High Performance DevOps Using DORA Metrics

Speaker: Nico KrĂĽger, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rollbar

How is your organization’s DevOps doing? Do you have strategies to both identify problems and improve performance? DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has identified four key metrics to help organizations understand where their DevOps stands and how it can reach an elite level of performance.

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Simplifying IT strategy: How to avoid the annual planning panic

CIO

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Your answers will lay the foundation for your strategy and highlight where your story needs work if you want to avoid fire drills in the eleventh hour. How much will it cost?

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GRR Vs. NRR: Choosing The Right Metric For Your Business Strategy

Crunchbase News

In today’s competitive business environment, mastering revenue metrics is pivotal for sustainable growth. Two key metrics are GRR, or gross revenue retention, and NRR, or net revenue retention. I will not dive into how to calculate them as it is widely available information, the benchmarks are also available and periodically change.

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