Dopes would hire 3 people to create metrics and generate reports that show you're not getting the job done.
I need head count to manage the work load.
"sorry, hiring freeze"...
Agree with you totally, I am sure you are familiar in a visceral way with the term “Big Data” which means simply a lot of it. I look at it in terms of the result of a process be it steps from start to finish and the “telemetry” of each collectively tells me what happened, just like that used in race cars and airplanes to tune things in.
Reports are so endemic in the industry while no one really looks at it in a way that it tells them something. Bosses want reports on subordinates so they can call them and badger them into selling more or whatever.
I am chuckling as I type this but it is not really funny as many in this thread reflect this is information about us and there are very strict rules and codes of conduct about how it is gathered, stored and used or shared like HIPPA, Gxp, GDPR etc. I agree the information in the wrong hands can be used in a negative way to deny us goods or services, so many tangents.
The good news is it is and must change and HHS and other Government agencies are turning to the private sector to help solve the problem and untie the gordian knot, I know as I am in that world and my position is to protect the sanctity and rights of the individual are paramount not the Government bureaucrats. I and my associates are directly involved with HHS and other agencies to change the way this all occurs and trust me my fellow freepers it will get better or I will not bend or break and give them ammo to hurt anyone.
And directly to you NativeSon I totally understand, you must at times have felt like you were in the midst of an insane asylum awash in data you were tasked to preserve and manage but that never seemed to really move the needle.
It is changing, big time from where I sit and it is getting better daily. The patients (Government and companies) have realized they have a problem, that is the first step to getting better. There is a way we are going and will follow that helps everyone and makes sense of the non sense
I serve God and that is my yardstick, I will not play in devious schemes and my soul is not for sale. There are millions upon millions of Americans whose very lives are impacted in the Caregiving world I am focused on now and more to come. But they deserve better and they shall have it, I will stop at nothing less.
Sic Semper Tyrannis!