Niamh Corbett argues that the data boards are looking at with regards to successful decision-making is measuring the wrong things. Boards are at the same pre-Moneyball moment as the Oaklands Athletics Team were back in 2002 ‒ and that the outcome data that could change governance forever does not yet exist.

Every year, boards make a small number of decisions that will determine the fate of their organisations. Acquisitions. CEO successions. Capital allocations. Strategic pivots. Each one carries consequences that will play out over years, sometimes decades.

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