There is real data on completion rates (and other metrics) tied to clients.
I know that sounds selfish, but when producing high-end interactive projects, we're often tied to clients desires with a more user experience approach, based around clear interfaces, and set user-flows.
Rather than strictly setting goals that measure your effort, these should be defined marketing goals that directly tie to your clients' or own business growth and that deliver change to clients.
Investors and regulators are focusing on conflicts of interest, and bankers with close personal and business ties to client companies may well be conflicted.
In one trial, Ms. Gatto accused police officers of lying about whether a gun could be tied to her client.
However, they're not as closely tied to specific clients, Bridges says, adding that a Multiverse server could run an old-style text-based game or a 3-D virtual world and hardly know the difference.
The company also lowered its profit and revenue outlook for the full year below Wall Street estimates, saying that projects tied to helping clients manage costs, mitigate risks or meet regulatory requirements were doing well but that divisions relying on shorter-term, more discretionary contracts had been hurt by the economic slump.
Accounting firms' ties to clients have come under close scrutiny after the collapse of Enron, which spent almost as much on consulting services sold by its auditor, Arthur Andersen, as on audit fees.
As far as she knows the question was not tied to a live client situation.
"It's somewhat misleading to only disclose they are former government officials and not the fact they're tied to companies or clients in the private sector," Amey said.
Think Apple's Mail client tied to, say, an exchange account.
