Public Health COVID-19 Case Count Up, Deaths Fall, Lockdowns Spread Since the end of March, the trailing seven-day average of novel coronavirus cases in China has made a U-turn according to data from Johns Hopkins University. After spiking to a record seven-day average of 66,551 cases on 1 March, with the outbreaks in Shenzhen, Jilin, and Shanghai, the new lockdown measures quickly reduced the average to 14,382 by 30 March. Through Sunday, the seven-day average had more than doubled, rising back to 30,179 cases with a corresponding mortality rate of 41 COVID-related deaths. As of yesterday, the seven-day average had retreated to 24,948 cases and 32 deaths. The low death rate is attributable to the widespread incidence of vaccine inoculati...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.