I’ve been in my job for a long time and we used to do things quickly and keep track on a bit of paper or a spreadsheet. Often I’d sort it all out myself and it was generally fine. Now there are any number of procedures and armies of bossy girls with all manner of platforms and tracking tools. Must cost a fortune. But it’s the way of the world and as
@Scotchegg says you have to do it or be left behind.
I've been in my job a very long time as well, and up until a few years ago, we got by perfectly fine without the influx of technology that exists in the job now, workers were much happier, felt valued and trusted, and were able to do the job in a much more effective way, achieving excellent results.
Then a few years ago, the company spent millions on a whole new technological "upgrade" to the way things are done, and the job has now become an absolute nightmare.
Workers feel under valued, ignored and are made to blindly follow the technology and computer based info, that is totally wrong, illogical, over complicated, and has made the job impossible to do successfully, due to the human element being taken out of it and the workers not being able to achieve the unrealistic targets and expectations of the ludicrous, overcomplicated technology and computer systems we're now forced to use and abide by.
The company won't change back to the way we did things before, simply because they say they've spent too much money implementing these new technologies, and other rival companies are using this tech, so we need to keep up, or we'll fall behind.
But some of these rival companies have now gone bust in recent years, and the ones that are still operating, just like us now, have seen their working relationship with a lot of customers suffer as a direct result of the technology making it more difficult to provide the excellent service they/we did before we allowed technology to become the bee all and end all.
I understand the need to move with the times, and use technology as a useful tool to assist humans in any job, in all walks of life, not just sport, and to an extent, technology does just that, and does it well.
But it's easy to say "keep up, or get left behind" but if keeping up means losing the natural, human instinctive approach, and things being more clinical, complicated, ridiculous and illogical, to the point where results are actually being effected in a negative way, then I think I'd rather be left behind, to do things the way that was working fine before all this technological nonsense started taking over!
Like I say, with regards to the football, statistical analytical data is fine, to an extent, but you look at how many people are in the "backroom staff" at clubs nowadays, especially at the top level, and how many of those are simply "analysis" and it's a bloody ludicrous waste of money.
Top managers throughout the history of the game managed absolutely fine, without all the technology and "analysis" in the game these days, they were able to identify what was good or bad, and knew how to make the relevant adjustments. They didn't need an army of "analysts" to do it for them.
Any manager worth his salt could surely see in any given game that the crossing was good or poor, the shooting was good or poor, we did or didn't have enough attempts on goal, the passing was or wasn't good enough, we lost too many tackles and 2nd balls, we did or didn't retain possession well enough in the 1st or 2nd half, we gave away too many silly fouls, we didn't win enough or conceded too many corners, and then didn't defend the corners well enough, or make use of our own corners enough etc.
They should also be able to see, throughout the course of the season, where the strengths and weaknesses lie, individually and as a team, without the need to spend a fortune to employ statistical analysts to use expensive technology to tell them that.
I dunno, call me old fashioned, but I just preferred it when it was a much simpler time, and maybe I am a bit of a dinosaur, but to be honest, I'm absolutely fine with that!
