by David Apgar | Oct 14, 2015 | Assumption Testing, GoalScreen, Impact Scorecards
For this attendee, the strongest impression of the SoCap15 conference for impact investors last week in San Francisco was about investor diversity. There were plenty of impact investors looking for energy, health, and data startups and boasting about exits....
by David Apgar | Sep 20, 2013 | GoalScreen
This paper argues US manufacturers still fail to identify metrics that predict performance results despite two decades of intensive investment in data-mining applications because indicators with the power to predict complex results must have high information content...
by David Apgar | Nov 4, 2011 | GoalScreen
Two challenges facing U.S. businesses raise the question of how well our performance management systems are performing. One: Although average worker productivity has risen briskly for two decades average wages have stagnated. Two: The flattening of U.S. consumer...
by David Apgar | Jul 23, 2008 | GoalScreen
As consumer demand falters and raw material costs rise, the pressure on business leaders, marketers, finance executives, and operating officers to pinpoint what is driving – or hindering – progress toward their performance objectives ratchets up. It’s not for...
