Business Development Metrics

Business Development Metrics (Measure Business Performance)
Balanced Scorecard Toolkit is a set of documents designed to help develop, implement, use and evaluate Balanced Scorecard in the company to measure, control and improve performance.
BSC Designer is a program that was used to create Balanced Scorecard Metrics, you can use it to create your own new metrics or modify existent.

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I want to maximize the correlation between two variables: Redemption Rate and Incentive by filtering other variables (e.g. Age, Current Balance). I’m just wondering is there any software that would automate this process, instead of me having to go through trial and error. The software would have to be able to take very large datasets (up to 8 million rows of data). Thanks.

I would suggest considering using Matlab. Not only are there a variety of statistical and optimizaton procedues but you can really customize your work and what ever you end up doing with your results. I’m sure you could probably do something like this in SAS, at worst in IML, but if you can get Matlab,you’ll add all new possibilities. If you’re not familar with it, check out the website.

The Balanced Scorecard Toolkit is a set of documents designed to help develop, implement, use and evaluateBalanced Scorecard in the company to measure, control and improve performance.

Check the information about toolkit parts below or purchase a full version.

http://business-development-metrics.com/bsc-toolkit.htm

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