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Re:The Sports Industry's Obsession with Meaningless Metrics by Natsu on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:20PM (#2907439)
They're in business, too. I've too often seen where management pursues some meaningless metric with no understanding of how that number is arrived at.

Sometimes, I think that the ability to make fancy yet meaningless spreadsheets is, at least as far as management is concerned, my most valuable technical skill. And that depresses me.

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Re:The Sports Industry's Obsession with Meaningless Metrics by MaxWendkos on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:25PM (#2907449)
It's understandable that businesses are seeking metrics to measure the effectiveness of their initiatives, but problematic when they give credence to completely useless numbers solely because they haven't yet identified effective metrics.
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