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Ouch! It's a bad sign when you starve your team of useful data! "He revoked access to Penney’s sales data for all but the top executives. But that took away
by johnvschmitt 14y ago
Ouch! It's a bad sign when you starve your team of useful data!
"He revoked access to Penney’s sales data for all but the top executives. But that took away valuable information: the buyer for, say, men’s big and tall could not see how women’s plus size was performing."
- mindcrime 14y agoYeah, that one really stuck out to me as well. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective, but if I were runny JCP, I'd make sure everybody down to the janitor had access to that stuff. And everybody, including the janitor, would have a channel to make sure their ideas could make it all the way to the top and get heard, if they had merit.
- rurounijones 14y agoApple is probably one of the most locked-down-as-a-matter-of-course companies on the planet. I guess he took that philosophy with him.
- johnvschmitt 14y agoI bet that's it. And/or, "hey the sales are falling! Better hide that bad news" Both are bad ideas, blinding them just when they need the data. I'd rather risk having my competitors occasionally get some of my data, than risk not sharing data freely within my own team. The competition is likely already getting those signals anyway, and the larger your organization, the more likely that you've got many internal blind spots that you really need to address.
- TheCondor 14y agoI would love to know the rationale behind that move, was he trying to foster some type of competition or something? Can you change one of these beasts? I maybe just attempt to rebrand them?
- verbalist 14y agoMy initial reaction is that it's related to securities law.