I had a meeting today with the commissioning section’s Information Officer. He was extremely helpful and saved me a lot of time by explaining exactly where I could find lots of information that would be helpful to my post. However it seems that the majority of the people who provide information do so with the proviso that it is probably incomplete.
Having spoken to a number of staff it seems that the way of things is to prepare half-hearted reports based on poor information and shrug that “it was the best I could do” People are then left to make major decisions using shoddy* reports based on shoddy* data. And we wonder why we are in such a mess.
If information is indeed power, then we will barely be punching our way out of wet paper bags!
*When I tell the story verbally I don’t use the word “shoddy” You can stick with this or insert any expletive that comes to mind!
Having spoken to a number of staff it seems that the way of things is to prepare half-hearted reports based on poor information and shrug that “it was the best I could do” People are then left to make major decisions using shoddy* reports based on shoddy* data. And we wonder why we are in such a mess.
If information is indeed power, then we will barely be punching our way out of wet paper bags!
*When I tell the story verbally I don’t use the word “shoddy” You can stick with this or insert any expletive that comes to mind!
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