Government Executive arrives, with the phrase "Data Driven" prominently featured on the cover.
Sadness.
His preferred term, Data-Fueled, as in Data-Fueled Decision-Making, has yet to catch on.
Unbowed, he approaches the soap-box yet again.
| Data-Driven | vs. | Data-Fueled |
| - All about numbers | + All about results | |
| - No Child Left Behind | + Race to the Top | |
| - Lean Six Sigma for L6s's sake | + Project selection and portfolio management | |
| - National Security Personnel System (NSPS) | + Human Capital Development | |
| - Spyware, robocalls, privacy violations | + Targeted ads, timely information, eHarmony | |
| - We live in a computer simulation | + Numbers enable transparency and auditability | |
| - Surrender to The Borg | + Use the Matrix |
Data-Driven is about reacting to the numbers, searching through the numbers for meaning, like a prophet might sift through the entrails of a gored ox before advising his King. More ox guts, please! Piles and piles of ox guts! I cannot see the future for lack of ox guts!
Data-Fueled is about satisfying an appetite for facts, but not just objective facts. Ideas and values are still important. The Singularity is still a few years off. Data-Fueled Decision-Making is about using numbers to add meaning to our current definition of Truth.
Related posts:
http://philosfx.blogspot.com/2012/02/improvement-process.html
http://philosfx.blogspot.com/2012/04/results-reflect-values.html
http://philosfx.blogspot.com/2012/03/vft-redux.html
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