It seems that businesses are spending as much money on bulking up their data capabilities as they are on, well, anything else.
I worry that this constant number-munching turns us all into permanently neurotic beings. Still, sometimes the numbers seem to help senior executives make decisions that they know won’t be universally popular.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has often been regarded as the quintessential data-driven human. So when he announced that his airline’s employees would all have to be vaccinated by Oct. 25 — or they’d be fired — it was instructive how he presented his case.