The Pro Farmer Crop Tour‘s data-gathering methods are disciplined and produce consistent results. Results from the Tour have a big impact on Pro Farmer Newsletter’s annual crop production estimate ...

Healthy data collection is the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing data in a legal, honest and safe manner. It’s an approach to data that is in everyone’s interest. When a business has ...

Gathering client data upfront is a critical, but often unnecessarily difficult, first step of any financial advisor-client relationship. Too often, wealth management firms still rely on spreadsheets, ...

The ability to gather and analyze project data has improved or improved significantly for nearly two-thirds of the respondents to a survey of construction managers, specialty trade contractors, and ...

Primary research is the process of gathering data directly from original sources as opposed to collecting information from research that others have done. Information can be obtained by observation, ...

In the evolving landscape of technology-based information-gathering, the distinctions between tasking an individual source and asking a crowd have become more pronounced. Why does this matter? At a ...

Among the biggest challenges advisors face is simply getting the data needed to execute a client’s financial plan. Without information to enter into the planning software, it’s impossible to ...

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