Analytic Management is Impeded by Common Organizational Pathologies:

• A powerful conventional wisdom, often associated with powerful people, is allowed to sustain itself absent critical testing.

• Decision making, especially at high levels, not only fails to demand rigor and dispassionate analysis, but often champions the opposite as the scarce talent that identifies CEOs and visionaries from otherwise smart but less inspired people.

• The organization lacks people who get up in the morning eager to do analytic empirical work and are really good at it. Instead, analytic work is seen as the last resort, undertaken by those unfamiliar with proper methods.

• People tend to win over ideas rather than the reverse.

In "Competing on Analytics - The New Science of Winning",
by Thomas H. Davenport & Jeanne G. Harris