Good actionable data only exists because someone at a given company spent a great deal of time and effort thinking about and creating key performance indicators. Then building or getting someone to build infrastructure to make them available.
Case in point with my side job. I mentioned one of their issues in the IT thread. But this is a publicly traded healthcare company and they lose north of $30M a quarter just because of shitty data in their scheduling practices lol.
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is apparently a unicorn.
IT is too broad. IT includes sysadmins who reboot computers and shit as well as software engineering and network engineering.And most people capable of doing such things have to be pretty entrepreneurial to understand the business KPI's for several different parts of the same business.
Most IT (IT is such a retarded department) folks I've run into are super disconnected from the business and are glorified computer rebooters.
Again this is in the IT thread but yes this kind of employee is ultra rare. I just had a guy quit because a job was "too hard and complicated."
I wont horrify you with the stories of the AT&T databases. Its 2021 and they have some of the original databases and front ends that "can't be replaced" because T wrote all the code, no one can replace it and they run a couple hundred billions dollars a year off of them. Absolutely zero of them talk to each other. CSRs regularly have 4 screen up for 4 different databases for each call.
Slight rustle here, was gonna buy some UAL this morning but slept in as I didnt act fast enough to buy that "dip" at the end of the day yesterday. Should step my game up with long term limit orders.
Its gained nearly 20% in the past month. Insane considering a few weeks ago they warned about sales issues.
