Something correlates - but is it what you think?

Maybe it could be that some companies have IT departments that have a good feel for the technology and the situation and manage to cope perfectly well without loads of management metrics.

Whereas other companies don't really understand the IT side so they go to seminars where they listen to management consultants telling them that you only know by measuring and this is "the best set of industry metrics(TM)". Those same PHBs^H^H^H^H managers that are now happy with their pretty pie charts also get invites to seminars where they are told that "now is the time to start planning your Vista roll-out".

I have used Vista and yeah it sucketh!