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After revolutionizing the world of baseball, Billy Beane, the General Manager of Oakland Athletics, who inspired the book and the Oscar-nominated movie “Moneyball,” has now accepted to become an advisor for the Dutch football club AZ Alkmaar.
“Data”, “information”, in other words “analytics”, is a term that has become almost ubiquitous in business jargon in the past years. More and more mangers, executives and analysts have begun using performance indicators to help them in their decision making process. The main problem organisations face nowadays is that they are flooded with data and the majority of them do not know how to make sense of all of it and use it to their benefit.
Before the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Louis van Gaal, manager of the Dutch national team, gave a presentation on management topics during a conference in the Netherlands. The presentation focused on how management principles are applied in today’s football world in order to achieve performance. To substantiate his point, Van Gaal gave the example of how the Dutch national squad prepared for the World Cup.
In sports, as in most human endeavors, preparation is the key to success. And it seems that in preparing for the 2014 World Cup the German national team (DFB) left nothing to chance.
At the beginning of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, speculations were, as always, intense about who is going to win, this time around. As the most important sporting event in the football world was about to start, the sheer number of global audiences it gathers was bound to lead to a vast array of biased or unbiased predictions for its final outcome. Needless to say, it most definitely did.
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