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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Pay attention to metrics that matter and provide regular updates. Upadhyay, P., &

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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business

This, most probably, is what Vasquez meant when she said that the firm plans “to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so we reach the biggest global audience possible.” Or that all we need to wow audiences is to scrape together more videos by automating the process?

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If you can't see it, how can you make it better?

Seth Godin Blog

Real breakthroughs are sometimes accompanied by new data, by new metrics, by new ways of measurement. All video is suspect, as is anything that is reported, journaled or computed. And arguing with Walmart or Target about your market share stats doesn't work either. You can't make things better if you can't agree on the data.

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The Top 6 Post Workshop Learning Best Practices

LSA Global

These reflections can be covered in a conversation with a colleague, an email from the workshop sponsor or facilitator, a note that they write to themselves, a reflection journal, or a video that is shared by all the trainees. You will know you are on the right path when rewards and metrics are aligned with the desired new behaviors.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

This TikTok video and news clip of a robotic server at Denny’s went viral with people on both sides of the debate. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Journal of Political Economy.

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What’s Your Story?

Chad Barr

That confusion was caused due to one engineering team using the English units of measurement and the other using the metric system. Just this morning, The Wall Street Journal reported that Dell is expanding its alliance with Oracle. The IBM Unsubscribe Saga is a great video example of leveraging a story to illustrate a point.