Each profession has its points of reference in order to work according to good practices.
Navigators used the compass, the polar star. Poets the inspiration, the muse. The saints the faith.
And entrepreneurs?
Not everyone has a Beatrice (ref. Dante) but all entrepreneurs and managers, while working, leave physical or digital traces. Data in any case.
Without astronomy the navigator risked getting lost, causing the crew to end up in trouble such as running out of food supplies or losing cargo. Without magnetic field, same thing.
In the sea of uncertainty which derives from entrepreneurial risk, or from the absence of a master tree that allows us to have a more overall vision, a statistician, or data scientist, allows us to create, find those reference points, data, and then synthesize them using digital compasses, as data dashboards, statistical models.
While the dashboard answers questions , not just artistic, “Who we are? Where do we come from?” Models answer “Where are we going?” as you don’t navigate by sight but have a map drawn with your data.
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