The rest of this article suggests some ways to measure your process, with the goal of determining how much of the process your team actually used.

Bear in mind, the industry tends to measure performance over ten-year periods, and not many people expect a roaring acquisition or IPO market for the rest of 2009, and arguably 2010.

Despite gains in the last two decades, the citation impact score-which is a measure of how a publication impacts the rest of the field and future research-is at 0.73, below the world average of 1.0.