Though I would urge one note of caution. It’s what Sean himself says, “Numbers don’t change companies. Interpreting those numbers, and acting on them, change people.”

In my experience, way too often people fall into the trap of watching the measures and forgetting what the measures are supposed to be measuring. That’s what Sean is talking about. It used to be called analysis paralysis, now the variant of it is drowning in data.

Good analysis makes things simple, not complex. Good consultants and analysts make sense of things, and that involves hard logic driven to the Big Picture. In that sense, data is the commodity–solid analysis is the scarce resource.

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