Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Measurement Program


For your chosen company (or choose a new one), follow KDP's 7 Steps to Measurement Program (ones that are possible) and document your steps in a blog post.  Explain how you think your chosen company should measure ROI (Return on Investment)?


KDP’s 7 Step Measurement Program for the CoAD at Lawrence Tech

Step 1:       
Define your goals and objectives.
We have objectives at both the College and University levels. Every decision we make needs to be tied to our strategic plan.

Step 2:       
Define your environment, your audience, and your role in influencing them.
Our environment is Lawrence Tech. Our audience is primarily potential students and their parents.

Step 3:       
Define your investment. What is the cost and the ROI?
Cost= $1,000 per credit hour and the ROI would be an increase in enrollment.

Step 4:       
Determining your benchmarks
It would be wise for us to compare ourselves to 2 or 3 of our competitors. The schools I would choose are Drexel, Boston Architectural College, and the University of Detroit Mercy.

Step 5:       
Define your key performance indicators.
Key indicators would be increasing brand awareness and the number of followers that we engage using social media.

Step 6:       

Select the right measurement tools and vendors and college data.
Brand awareness can be monitored via google analytics to see if your traffic has increased.


Step 7:       
Turn data into action: analyze data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations (Paine, 2011).
I am currently taking this course in Web Analytics and my hope is that it will give me the tools I need in order to come up with a successful plan.

Works Cited

Paine, K. D. (2011). Measure What Matters. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.


2 comments:

  1. What are your business objectives for CoAD? What are the costs of the measurement program? (or potential costs -- in both people, time, and $)

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  2. CoAD's main objective is to increase enrollment. In addition to increasing enrollment, we are working to increase both brand awareness and website traffic. There are many outstanding, free ways to measure outcomes, which can be found at www.sncr.org (Paine, 2011).

    It could take months, or even a year to analyze the data that needs to be collected. Increasing enrollment and recruitment would require the use of Web server analytics. Increasing awareness would necessitate online surveys (Paine, 2011).

    The measurement project would be more or less expensive based on whether or not the person conducting the research is experienced, or needs to be trained. The basic rule is that an organization should plan to spend 5-10% if their overall project budget for measurement (Paine, 2011).

    Works Cited
    Paine, K. D. (2011). Measure What Matters. (W. T. Paarlberg, Ed.) Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

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