"Read enough analyst reports, and listen to enough conference speakers, and one can be forgiven for assuming that all important decisions these days should be data-driven. However, business leaders and professionals should be selective as to which decisions should be tied to data analytics, and which should remain based on human experience.

 

…To help make decisions about making decisions, Gartner recently published an informative ebook, The Future of Decisions, that outlines the process of dissecting and reengineering decisions to both separate human input from machine involvement, as well as enable the two to work in unison."