Comments on: To hell with “guts,” Accenture’s survey gave a false choice http://datadoodle.com/2009/02/02/to-hell-with-guts/ Where the humans meet analytics and related subjects Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael W Cristiani http://datadoodle.com/2009/02/02/to-hell-with-guts/#comment-438 Michael W Cristiani Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:53:14 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=389#comment-438 Ted, Glad you had some yogurt in Vegas. Long way to go for yogurt, unless you gut is telling you that nine times out of ten the yogurt in Vegas is to fly for. In any event, on the subject of guts, take a look at this sort of related blog post from Franz Dill, a retired P&G researcher and innovator, who more people should pay attention to, after they read your blog, of course: http://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2009/02/gut-feelings-intelligence-of.html Ted,

Glad you had some yogurt in Vegas. Long way to go for yogurt, unless you gut is telling you that nine times out of ten the yogurt in Vegas is to fly for.

In any event, on the subject of guts, take a look at this sort of related blog post from Franz Dill, a retired P&G researcher and innovator, who more people should pay attention to, after they read your blog, of course: http://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2009/02/gut-feelings-intelligence-of.html

]]> By: Heather Steele http://datadoodle.com/2009/02/02/to-hell-with-guts/#comment-433 Heather Steele Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:52:59 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=389#comment-433 Ted, I agree that we need to see details about (or the actual) survey to decide how accurate these statistic are. I'm going to hope that by "guts" these folks mean common sense, or like you mentioned they just don't have the data available to make a decision, so they have to go on their instinct. What does blow me away though is the number of organizations out there who just don't have any kind of analytics in place. I consistently see folks from the bottom-up trying to adopt and put into place a strategy for capturing analytical data and using it to their company's best advantage, but it is not adopted all the way up the chain to upper management. There are an abundance of business leaders out there who truly believe their gut instinct is always the way to go. They are reluctant to adopt the transparency that comes with good analytics. Ted,
I agree that we need to see details about (or the actual) survey to decide how accurate these statistic are. I’m going to hope that by “guts” these folks mean common sense, or like you mentioned they just don’t have the data available to make a decision, so they have to go on their instinct.

What does blow me away though is the number of organizations out there who just don’t have any kind of analytics in place. I consistently see folks from the bottom-up trying to adopt and put into place a strategy for capturing analytical data and using it to their company’s best advantage, but it is not adopted all the way up the chain to upper management.

There are an abundance of business leaders out there who truly believe their gut instinct is always the way to go. They are reluctant to adopt the transparency that comes with good analytics.

]]> By: James Taylor http://datadoodle.com/2009/02/02/to-hell-with-guts/#comment-425 James Taylor Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:03:06 +0000 http://datadoodle.com/?p=389#comment-425 I was struck by the number of writers saying that if the existing tools have failed to dispense with "gut" decision making that more of the same is called for. I disagreed in this post: http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/taylor/archives/2009/01/to_hell_with_business_intelligence_try_decision_ma.php JT I was struck by the number of writers saying that if the existing tools have failed to dispense with “gut” decision making that more of the same is called for.
I disagreed in this post:
http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/taylor/archives/2009/01/to_hell_with_business_intelligence_try_decision_ma.php

JT

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