Since Gov. Terry Branstad returned to office in 2011, state unemployment has fallen, the economy has improved and residents have generally been confident about the direction Iowa is heading. But that ...

When I served in Alaska’s Legislature, I relied on data and analysis to inform decisions. As most Alaskans know, the numbers have been tough in our state for a few years, and the resulting budget ...

We covered the topic of analytics on a recent episode of The Thought Leadership Project podcast, and a listener asked me a thought-provoking follow-up question: “If you could measure only one key ...

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components ...