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Evidence-Based Decision-Making: A Framework For IT

CIO, September 16,2025

'Evidence-based decision-making' sounds like a great idea. Before trying to build it into your IT culture, you'll first need to figure out what it means.

Solicit a proposal from your average consultant and you're likely to unearth in the ensuing PowerPoint a slide that extols the virtues of the consulting firm's 'frameworks and methodologies.'

You - and, for that matter, the consultants as well - probably chalked up the phrase to the realm of redundancy-driven concept amplification, where saying the same thing twice using different words lends a certain profundity to the proceedings.

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