I grabbed my wife’s Harvard Business Review (HBR Jan-Feb 2012) edition before a recent plane ride to a customer meeting.  After diving through a bunch of case study-type narratives I ended up in a section titled “Stop Collecting Customer Data” (page 57), which was part of HBR’s “Audacious Ideas” series.  This series was aimed at showcasing some proclaimed thought leaders’ very forward-thinking and, in my opinion, also some rather ill guided ideas full off naïveté.  (more…)