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Malcolm Preston of PwC argues that businesses need to stop using 19th and 20th century tools to tackle 21st century challenges

We clamour for more transparency, but often the response is simply more data. Data should help guide decision making, but our use of one dimensional tools and 19th century skills, leads to binary debates...

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