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The 508(c)(1)(a) New Millennium Faith-Based Initiative

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One of the biggest challenges in leveraging data science to help make complex<br />

strategic decisions is to mistakenly assume that an unordered, unpredictable, complex<br />

context is in fact an ordered, predicable complicated one. “This assumption, grounded<br />

in the <strong>New</strong>tonian science that underlies scientific management, encourages<br />

simplifications that are useful in ordered circumstances. Circumstances change,<br />

however, and as they become more complex, the simplifications can fail. Good<br />

leadership is not a one-size-fits-all proposition.”<br />

Neither is good data-driven decision making. With operational decisions, we have to<br />

learn to distinguish between those situations when decisions can be embedded in<br />

automated processes, and those that require human intervention. With strategic<br />

decisions we have to learn the difference between complicated but predictable contexts,<br />

and complex and intrinsically unpredictable ones. This is all part of what makes data<br />

science such an important and exciting discipline.<br />

- Irving Wladawsky-Berger<br />

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