Why You Don’t Trust the Data in Your Company Data is supposed to make business easier. It should help leaders make decisions with greater confidence, help teams identify problems before they become expensive, and give everyone a shared understanding of what is actually happening inside the organization. Yet in many companies, something rather peculiar happens: there is an abundance of data, but very little faith in it. Executives ask for reports and then question the numbers. Managers open dashboards but still request spreadsheets. Employees spend hours checking figures against other figures because nobody is entirely certain which version is correct. The result is a strange paradox. The company has become…