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Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles - Commoncog

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Note: this is Part 12 in a series of blog posts about becoming data driven in business. This piece is the culmination of one and a half years of investigation and then practice, and sets up for a two-parter explaining the Amazon-style Weekly Business Review. I’m going to attempt something ambitious with this essay: I will explain how one might go from ‘understanding variation’ to the structure of the Amazon-style Weekly Business Review (WBR). This piece will set up for the next two essays in the Becoming Data Driven series, which will describe the actual practice of the WBR. And though it might not seem like it, I believe this piece is actually the more important one. With the WBR you get a pre-packaged metrics practice that Amazon has honed over years of trial and error. That is in itself incredibly valuable, because it’s something you can apply immediately — assuming you’re willing to put in the work. But it’s really the principles of Statistical Process Control (and/or Continuous Im

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