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Single Source of Truth

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The one dashboard we all agreed on… until someone else made a new one with different numbers.

Single Source of Truth

A centralized, authoritative data source for a company. The one dashboard everyone trusts—until they don’t like the numbers and check Excel instead. Every company claims to have one, but in reality, there are at least five conflicting sources of truth. The "truth" is whatever the highest-paid person says it is.

"We have a single source of truth, which means we pretend this one dashboard is correct."

Single Source of Truth
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