Be Decision Driven, Not Data Driven
Most companies aspire to be data driven; they should aim to be DECISION driven instead
Most companies aspire to be data driven; they should aim to be DECISION driven instead. What’s the difference between being decision driven and data driven?
➿ Decision-Driven teams search for questions worth asking. They don’t settle for the ones on hand.
👀 Decision-Driven teams look wide first, then dive deep.
🏆 Decision-Driven teams are led by data humanists, not data scientists.
🦴 Decision-Driven teams are data dogs: they figure out what’s missing and go get it.
🔭 Decision-Driven teams explore the unknown, not only the known.
In other words, this:
This is point 5 of 5 from my latest article for the Data Leadership Collaborative, “Five Ways to Make a Data Literacy Program Stick." Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eYFwPzTp
I’m trying hard not to belittle the value of data and data science, for sure. It’s incredible and evolving and powerful. I just feel like the AI industry is like being on a whale watching trip where all the passengers have rushed to one side of the ship, looking at algorithms as all powerful.
On the other side of the ship are Data Humanists, human beings that do more critical thinking about “what is the best question to ask?” instead of writing Yet Another Algorithm.
We need both of course. I’m just trying to root a little harder for the Data Humanist side of the boat. The views are nice here, too :)
Ah finally someone who gets the true value of strategic thinking :)
This is not to belittle the value of data science, but to underscore the importance of not putting the data car before the human driver, as it were.