Probably no family of statistical measures is more prone to honest misuses and wanton abuses than that of the percent. In this article we survey a variety of ways that percents misinform, mislead and misdirect. Improper comparisons and faulty conclusions about ratios result from statistical ignorance. H. G. Wells once said: “Statistical thinking will one […]
We live in a world – in our lives as individuals outside work, as well as our lives at work inside organisations – where information technology is arguably the most potent force driving transformation. In organisations, IT is driving new opportunities for sourcing capabilities and systems through Cloud-based platforms; new opportunities for delivering information and […]
This nauseating nasty can be easily identified by its propensity to expand anything that is put in front of it. Recognizable symptoms of a scope creeper infestation are projects that continually grow in size and budget and a tendency to tackle multiple problems all at once. The only known remedy of this ghoul is neutralization […]