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This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It’s not that the polling system itself is broken — instead, polls behave exactly as they’re designed. The problem is they aren’t designed to predict the...
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December 29, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
As you’ve probably heard, while Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote, Donald Trump was awarded more than 270 votes in the Electoral College. Many, particularly on social media, were incredulous, partly at the candidates but also at the pollsters — in particular,...
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December 15, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
1 percent of Baby Boomers claimed to be vegetarian, which then progressed to 4 percent of Gen X’ers saying no to meat, and onward to an even bigger bump with roughly 12 percent of Millennials saying they are total vegetarians.
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November 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
The trick is to dig in and coax the insights out of our data that we already have.
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October 20, 2016 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Using real data from good sources helps to anchor our decision making and often, but not always, helps to settle down those emotionally driven opinions.
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October 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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August 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Refactoring not only helps improve the mechanical quality of code; it also helps you learn from your code. When refactoring, you converge on better models. Right now, your code works, but it may feel tense, even a bit brittle. Refactoring reveals the implicit model, which...
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July 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
[S]elf-reporting data can be very misleading. For instance, in an Australian hospital, 73 percent of staff doctors claimed that they soaped up before interacting with patients. But a study based on observed behavior showed that only 9 percent of them did. Stephen Dubner, Freaky Thinkers...
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June 9, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
They assumed that, if a project was intensely and minutely planned, everything would naturally and inevitably proceed in an orderly and deterministic way. … And when projects did go off the rails, their response was to stop everything and replan. Sometimes that works, but sometimes...
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January 28, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
In today’s atomized medical system, it can take 10 to 20 years for a major treatment advance to become ubiquitous.
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August 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Intensely monitoring healthy individuals could make them less well, not more.
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August 12, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
The curse of the economic cycle to date, which has been its sluggishness, is now turning into a blessing, resulting in greater longevity.
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July 15, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
“There’s a creative moment when you think of a hypothesis, maybe it’s that interest rate data drives” currency rates, she says. “So we think about that first before we mine the data. We don’t mine the data to come up with ideas.” Lady Braga Steps...
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April 30, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit.
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April 14, 2015 Bruce Benson
Schedule
The key was that I knew what was normal, what a typical project looked like, how the typical project would play out. This included all the typical problems that would go wrong. Most importantly I knew that given just enough time in the overall schedule, we would have the time to fix any issues.
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February 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
