Because the tech-illiterate people who have authority only know “productivity” tools and couldn’t care less about the opinions of the people who actually know what they’re doing.
I disagree. It’s way more that they aren’t hiring the right people to do the job. I’ve been asked to do some analysis, but the only tool I know how to use is Excel so that’s what I use to answer the mail. If I had access to a database person to help me build a better tool I’d be happy to not use Excel. But I don’t so I do what I can to do my job.
Because the tech-illiterate people who have authority only know “productivity” tools and couldn’t care less about the opinions of the people who actually know what they’re doing.
Those at the top are often more tech literate than I give them credit for. I suspect it is actually those armies of analysts that are holding it back
The Peter principle says otherwise, but analysts are a factor for sure.
I’ve witnessed the dilbert principle more
Yeah, I have access to database tools to do my job, but I don’t know how to use those tools so I use Excel to do shit it really isn’t optimized to do.
I am 100% part of the problem when I create a spreadsheet with formulas cross correlating data from 41000 entries, 9000 entries, and 1200 entries.
I disagree. It’s way more that they aren’t hiring the right people to do the job. I’ve been asked to do some analysis, but the only tool I know how to use is Excel so that’s what I use to answer the mail. If I had access to a database person to help me build a better tool I’d be happy to not use Excel. But I don’t so I do what I can to do my job.