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“Blaise Pascal, the famous French mathematician and physicist, wrote in Lettres Provinciales (translated), “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“asked them two key questions. With your current data and processes, what do you need help with? That helped identify inefficiencies and automations that we could put in place to deliver those quick wins. I also asked a broader question: what are you not able to do that we can help with? This helped identify new, additional data sources or functionality not in place that formed our more longer-term plans.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“In a data-driven world, that means making sure that everyone understands the objective, the data collected, the metrics, and how the primary decision maker is interpreting the evidence. Give others a chance to put forward their interpretations and views, if those differ, and get everyone on board; but also get inputs on other perspectives that that the decision maker may have missed. To help, you can remember this neat mnemonic, DECIDE: Define the problem. Establish the criteria. Consider all the alternatives. Identify the best alternative. Develop and implement a plan of action. Evaluate and monitor the solution and feedback when necessary. In other words, make sure that stakeholders are on board with each of these steps.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches