Off topic, but the image looks like the aptly named "creeping devil" cactus, which is likely why it's kind of disturbing. I think the sign behind it says "opuntia cochenillifera", but that's definitely not what's shown. Opuntia's are species of prickly pear or cholla and cochenillifera is one of the large, mostly spineless cultivated prickly pears [similar to Indian Fig].
You can’t manage what you can merely measure. The same goes for the upwardly aspiring who think that a dashboard is a Harry Potter wand that can be merely waved to achieve magical results without so much an an accompanying abracadabra. This is especially true in the case where fixing the number is synonymous with fixing the problem. The definition and/or interpretation of the inputs to the metric will inevitably be gamed to achieve the demanded upward trend. And, if that doesn’t work, data will be adjusted as needed. As a last resort, an attempt will be made at casual reasoning to trace the bad effect (failure to make your bonus bogey) to some external phenomenon potentially susceptible to influence. Rather than attempting to exert influence through innovation (hard) recourse will be had to salesmanship. If the indicator happens to improve, credit will be taken, otherwise blame will be cast. All of this can be done with equal efficacy at far less cost by AI.
Off topic, but the image looks like the aptly named "creeping devil" cactus, which is likely why it's kind of disturbing. I think the sign behind it says "opuntia cochenillifera", but that's definitely not what's shown. Opuntia's are species of prickly pear or cholla and cochenillifera is one of the large, mostly spineless cultivated prickly pears [similar to Indian Fig].
I'm pretty sure just out of frame were a bunch of prickly pear-like cactus plants!
You can’t manage what you can merely measure. The same goes for the upwardly aspiring who think that a dashboard is a Harry Potter wand that can be merely waved to achieve magical results without so much an an accompanying abracadabra. This is especially true in the case where fixing the number is synonymous with fixing the problem. The definition and/or interpretation of the inputs to the metric will inevitably be gamed to achieve the demanded upward trend. And, if that doesn’t work, data will be adjusted as needed. As a last resort, an attempt will be made at casual reasoning to trace the bad effect (failure to make your bonus bogey) to some external phenomenon potentially susceptible to influence. Rather than attempting to exert influence through innovation (hard) recourse will be had to salesmanship. If the indicator happens to improve, credit will be taken, otherwise blame will be cast. All of this can be done with equal efficacy at far less cost by AI.