Crap in, Crap out: The Importance of Clean Data and Why Legacy POS Has None

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is an old business adage. I’ve seen some attribution to the late Peter Drucker, who said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Drucker’s comment is intended to mean that absent an objective view of truth, it’s hard to determine what actions will change an outcome. And since business is about changing outcomes — higher revenues, higher profits, lower costs, etc. — it can be a company’s death knell.

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