As VP of sales, I was told to push extra hard on all our metrics.
He added that Ambition integrates with phone and customer relationship management systems, so it can track the relevant metrics without requiring any extra work from the salespeople (though it may motivate them to keep the CRM updated).
Our next step was to give this pool of companies a composite ranking on all those metrics, with long-term results receiving extra weight in our scoring.
But Thirunamachandran rejects this concern, saying the metrics system simply does away with an extra round of peer review of research that has already been assessed in other forms.
If the change affects these metrics, the maintainer can for example perform extra software quality assurance activities in this class (like unit testing or code inspection).
The FitBit, the Striiv, and even Motorola's new MotoACTV smart watch take the same metrics, but force you to carry around an extra device.
The money could be used to fund extra classes, extra teachers or smaller class sizes, and the metrics are initially agreed upon for improved proficiency rates.
We can benchmark how each client on the network performs against key metrics, identify high performers, and then, with a little extra research, figure out what those organizations are doing right.
This case reveals that, despite its association with objectivity and transparency, commensuration encompasses more than identifying, operationalizing, and measuring an entity; it demands the negotiation of extra-scientific, non-empirical concerns that get written into medical metrics themselves.
