In every role I have ever held I have noticed one specific ingredient – CHAOS! There is always more data than I need, most times less specific and irrelevant to the immediate question.
In today’s day and age of super segmented data channels there is an always increasing need for visualization there is a constant need for dashboards. These very same dashboards are the source of knowledge and confusion, which really are two sides of the same coin. The data clog in organizations, their hiring practices and role, responsibility and expectations are what drive organizations north and south.
- The single most important responsibility I have had and least recognized stems from this exact clog caused by excessive data. This noble responsibility has been the creation of structure in a chaos of data, information and knowledge.
- The second least recognized is the difference between fact and truth. Fact is simply data driven and truth is contextual.
- The third misunderstood data point relates to the difference between depth and breath of experience. Sadly neither depth nor breath can be directly related to ones ability to influence. The organization in identifying inflection points in a business and/or enable innovation through cross pollination of ideas.
