The first few posts I'm making are to set the scene for the future of the blog and explain what I'm trying to do. In my previous post I mentioned that I will be using evidence to make suggestions, examining IT and business practice. This post discusses why that's important to me, and why I think it should be important to you too. We are bombarded with advice about how things should be done, from colleagues, bosses and friends. We can go out and find even more information online, from training, or in books. All of these can extremely useful, but having a reliable way of sorting out the real from the rubbish is vital. Evidence, well deployed, can cut through uncertainty, making your actions more effective and your decisions more reliable. Poorly deployed or misinterpreted, though, it can give you false confidence and lead you astray. Being intelligent is not a protection against this risk, either, and some research suggests it even increases the capacity for self-decep
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