Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R. I. (2006). Profiting from evidence-based management, Strategy & leadership. 34 (2), 35-42.

This article is stressing the importance of using good information to make decisions. The authors suggest 7 principles to evidence based management.

They are:

1. Treat your organization as an unfinished prototype.

2. No brag, just facts.

3. See yourself and your organization as outsiders do.

4. evidence-based management is not just for senior executives.

5. Like everything else, you still need to sell it.

6. If all else fails, slow the spread of bad practices.

7. The best diagnostic question: what happens when people fail?

These principles ask for a great deal of personal responsibility. The authors suggest that to foster this corporations needs to foster an environment conducive to responsibility and responsiveness. They even go so far to suggest that insubordination may be a manager’s only recourse if leaders are immovably wrong.

This article serves as an advertisement for corporate libraries. The authors continually stress the importance of good information as a basis for decision-making. Because the article is geared towards how to make better use of an information center, this is not to say that the practices discussed are not applicable to the CLIC. Anyone, in any job can become complacent, and these principles help refocus a business to help better meet goals.