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Evaluation and Control Program Best Practice 6 – Identify Data Relationships
“Information is data that has been processed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who receives it.”
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Quality information supports effective decision-making. Data by itself, however, is not information.
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For additional information on how to effectively combine data from multiples sources, see StrategyDriven article, Evaluation and Control Best Practice – Data Synthesis.
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Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.
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