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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
For some departments statics play a huge role in figuring out trends like what you mention. Jan to Nov isn't a complete cycle, and the whole methodology could be completely off base if they statistics collected don't give enough of the picture.
I do agree, with some of the knowledge that is there, some genralizations can be made, but nothing that could give any real business direction.
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The question was just an example and Jan to Nov was a made up time frame. Waiting to id a trend isn't an issue. The department heads won't go a cm out on a limb to make recommendations. They feel their role should be one of supplying information without any insight into why things are as they are.
The whole reason the department was created was because there was too much fighting between sales and marketing over what the trends are and the reasons for them. We were supposed to be a neutral third party yet "we" won't even offer an opinion (well, I guess we will in two to three years).