What You Don’t Know Will Cost You: Becoming a Data-Driven Manager
The ROI Alliance's President, Steven Ouellette, was interviewed by Manufacturer's Edge, Colorado's official manufacturing partnership center. They covered why creating metrics is so hard, and how there is a better way to do it.
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