As the diversity and quantity of data at our fingertips explode, organizations have the opportunity to leverage these big data to run their organizations better. Finally, we have the data we need to drive evidence-based management decisions – at least in theory.
However, all the big data in the world won’t prevent us from falling for rookie mistakes as well as the management fads you can find in all those books on the business shelf in your local big box bookstore.
Some management guru comes up with a novel hypothesis about how to run companies better, goes out and finds some case studies to support their hypothesis, and voila! A fad is born.
And then you have the management gurus who poke holes in other gurus’ management fads. This lambasting of various fads is deeply ironic, since what they’re really doing is promoting their own management fad.
In other words, “my management fad is better than your management fad.” Join the club – it seems that every book in the business book section is doing the same thing one way or the other. Battle of the management fads.
Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2014/12/23/management-fads-at-odds-with-big-data/.
