A scientific approach in every aspect of life demands a reason-based approach. There must be a rationale behind every decision, every move, and every action. Number crunching plays an essential role in ensuring a reason-based approach, where precision is considered important. Scientific innovations and discoveries have only been made possible through reasoning and precise thinking – whether it’s reaching the milestone of landing on the moon, discovering shale gas reserves, or inventing a smartphone; all these achievements have been made possible through maintaining a scientific approach.
These days, many successful organizations have adopted this reason-based scientific approach for launching, running, and managing institutions. This scientific approach demands that at every level of hierarchy, there must be a reason-based mindset – whether it’s a hiring decision, the purchase of machinery, or a promotion; everyone in the organization must ensure that for every decision and action, there is a rationale, a reason, and a motive that should be clear to the concerned personnel or department. Moreover, number crunching also plays an important role in ensuring the smooth running of the organization, which can only be achieved through clear information management, extensive data analysis, robust business modeling, and competitive strategic moves.
In well-managed and thriving organizations, there are dedicated personnel who spend their time extracting data from reliable resources, such as a web portal of a government department or gathering data from State Banks’ reports. This data is then turned into meaningful information through brainstorming sessions and critical thinking skills.
A business case for adopting a scientific approach is made possible by ensuring at every step that business management can only be done with reasoning and rationality. There should be no wishful thinking involved in running organizational affairs at any level.
By Syed Adeel ur Rahman