In Summary
Data is at the heart of the decision-making process. Traditionally, data was a byproduct of systems created by IT. But soon, the IT development process became so complicated that the end user looked for a better way to manage data.
Soon the end user stumbled upon the spreadsheet, which was accessible, affordable, and did not require a technician. The spreadsheet allowed the end users to control their own destinies, and thus became very popular.
In fact, the spreadsheet became so popular that the corporate environment became overrun with too many spreadsheets, created by too many people, on whims and without any management. I affectionately refer to this crisis as “Spreadsheet Hell.” In “Spreadsheet Hell” there was no shortage of data. But there was a real shortage of believable data.
Management was at a crossroads. They needed to find data that could be used for sound decision making. One way to find this was to take appropriate spreadsheet...
