The data-driven organization is in sharp contrast to most businesses. Many business leaders dont realize that they can have it both ways: high value data at low cost. While there may be an infinite number of ways companies fall short of being data driven, our experience is that they fall into three broad camps. I've seen these companies, and maybe you have too. . . .
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Last February, I started writing down the reading on our electrical meter every morning when I got to work. I subtracted the prior day's reading to get the amount (in Kilowatt Hours) that we used the prior day. After about a month I pasted the data into GainSeeker Suite SPC Software and came up with this chart... I also calculated the average daily cost and sent out a memo to my staff....
