Evidence Based Management

The idea of evidence based management is somewhat common sense. But it is strange that many times in a management situation, people do not follow these methods. To do what is right based upon the results. It seems as though this concept is simple, yet not implemented in the common daily routine of managers. Even with the use of doctors evidence based decision making 15% of the time, they are still relying on methods learned in school, patterns of experience, and certain methods that they believe is right. But none of these assumptions that these doctors are making directly relates to the evidence from results. The even worse case is the percentage of actual managers of businesses that do not implement evidence based decision making. This is a very scary thought, and confusing to me how all of these managers still stay afloat.

It seems as though many managers are trying to move in the direction of evidence based management. The continuous improvement process can be assumed in one way or another to be evidence based. Managers are trying to move from their old ways that have always worked, and are now being subject to change. It seems as though doctors do have a better way of using evidence based management in their practices, but they are also clouded with vendors and new products that could be based upon new evidence, but might be a little over exaggerated.

The tough part about a manager being evidence based is the amount of clouds that revolve the honest truth about what really works. Everyone in the field of any type of work has data that supposedly is based on true evidence. But sometimes this is not the case at all, there so too much evidence out there, and the truth has become engulfed with clutter. Considering the amount of evidence out there, and the search for the true hard facts, there is still many paths that lead to no where. Either the data from the research is not accurate, or the evidence is not applicable to the current situation. There are many boundaries that a manager must face when transitioning into an evidence based management system and mindset.