Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
&gt; My current organization has 8000 staff members, and I used to glance over the usage metrics of the dashboards my old team produced. I believe three dashboards were used, out of somewhere around 50 - 100. Of those being visited, it usually turned out they were being visited by members of our team checking to see if the data had refreshed for the day. I&#x27;d estimate the cost of maintaining our team was approximately $1,000,000, for an organization that supposedly can&#x27;t afford to waste that money.<p>I’m not sure how to explain this, but often when I find posts on HN linking to an engineer discussing how management is doing it wrong (especially if it’s someone who’s not running a successful company themselves), there’s usually a hyperfocus on really insignificant numbers as evidence of their point.<p>This company has 8000 employees. And the cost of maintaining those dashboards is about $1mm according to the post.<p>It only takes someone in management to identify a change which improved employee efficiency by $125 annually to completely pay for the $1mm spent to maintain the dashboard.<p>Identify a new $125 efficiency improvement every year, and by year 5 your $1mm annual expense is saving you $5mm every year.