Numbersandmeasurementsarethelanguageofbusiness.. Organizationslookatresults exp

Numbersandmeasurementsarethelanguageofbusiness.. Organizationslookatresults expenses qualitylevels efficiencies time costs etc. Whatmeasuresdoesyourdepartmentkeeptrackof ? Howarethemeasurescollected andhowaretheysummarized/described? Howaretheyusedinmakingdecisions? (Note: Ifyoudonothave a jobwheremeasuresareavailabletoyou asksomeoneyouknowforsomeexamplesorconductoutsidereseachonaninterestofyours.)Managers and professionals often pay more attention to the levels of their measures (means sums etc.) than to the variation in the data (the dispersion or the probability patterns/distributions that describe the data). For the measures you identified in Discussion 1 why must dispersion be considered to truly understand what the data is telling us about what we measure/track? How can we make decisions about outcomes and results if we do not understand the consistency (variation) of the data? Does looking at the variation in the data give us a different understanding of results?