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Today’s technology makes it easy to collect numbers, but it is also possible to forget why the information is being collected. Even with the best of technology, collecting numbers needlessly gets expensive. Therefore, it is important to discover which data collection efforts should be terminated because nobody is deriving any value from them.
Perhaps the problem is terminology. What we really want is to discover measurable results. Measurable results are critical, while data collection may be a meaningless exercise. Has the reason for collecting numbers disappeared, and nobody remembered to stop the process?
Start with asking Why. Gather every current collection of data and ask the reason why this process was established, why it was deemed necessary, and whether we should still be doing it today. If the process is not revealing measurable results, why should it not be terminated as soon as possible?
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