To be fair, actual data-driven decisions require sufficient data. Depending on the field, collecting all relevant data may be quite expensive. And then it can be the right call to not do that, to only collect data where it’s cheap and to accept the risk of a gut feeling being wrong for the rest.
What Mister Manager here actually means here however is that he wants his subordinates to spend countless hours compiling and collating endless monthly reports for him which he will not read, or ignore even if he does read.
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To be fair, actual data-driven decisions require sufficient data. Depending on the field, collecting all relevant data may be quite expensive. And then it can be the right call to not do that, to only collect data where it’s cheap and to accept the risk of a gut feeling being wrong for the rest.
Agreed, just because you have data, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the whole picture or the data-suggested action is the most feasible
What Mister Manager here actually means here however is that he wants his subordinates to spend countless hours compiling and collating endless monthly reports for him which he will not read, or ignore even if he does read.