Companies, including SMEs, have a lot of data, structured in various ways. Behind these can hide crimes such as not using them to lower costs and/or increase turnover.
The crime scene always happens from some database: spreadsheets that are often messy (Excel, Google), even though there was no fight, servers, CRM, i.e., where data is collected on prospects and customers (but not only).
The crime: mortification of data, which took place in a room overflowing with furniture, some vintage, cobwebs, dust, with a window with blinds down but which has holes, from which sunbeams enter, appearing almost solid to the eye, due to the dust raised by the arrival of the police commissioner and other officers.
The commissioner notices a seemingly insignificant detail: someone has moved furniture, this is because on the floor there is an area, consistent with dragging, with less dust accumulation. So someone talked to those figures before mortifying them, even if they had a very brief and inconclusive discussion. Shedding light on the drawer of that cabinet, the knob also has less dust accumulation. Inside the drawer he finds averages, counts and something less understandable.
The commissioner has the fingerprints taken from that knob and summons the suspect, the one in the company with the most responsibility. In questioning, in order not to be prejudiced, preserving the presumption of the suspect’s innocence. She asks what kind of conversation the entrepreneur had with the data but he, without resistance and getting straight to the point, reconstructs the whole affair, noting the motive: revenge and madness. The data did not say what the entrepreneur wanted to hear, leading him to mortify them. The material evidence? The average had statistical witness, that is, it did not turn out statistically different from what the entrepreneur wanted.
Fortunately, the one who carried out the crime, the entrepreneur, had no accomplices, the managers. The commissioner reconstructs the motive: the world is going faster and faster, although it won’t always go that way, and someone can fall behind in digital transformation, which doesn’t just mean having a website, a few social pages, a few programmers. Consequently, the entrepreneur wanted a quick answer to confirm his hypothesis. The contradiction coming from the data shook his “I” too much and he returned this pain, with interest, to the data, mortifying it. Excessive self-defense, some would say.
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