If you need more proof that Facebook has successfully transformed itself into a mobile-first company, its first quarter 2018 earnings should do the trick. Facebook reported $11.97 billion in revenue and $4.98 billion in profit for the past quarter, with 91 percent of its advertising revenue coming from mobile.
Source: venturebeat.com
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talent) with numerical indicators of comparative performance based upon standardised data (metrics); and that the best way to motivate people within these organisations is by attaching rewards and penalties to their measured performance.
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