WHATEVER Dr. Tony Leachon said about the ineffectiveness of the Department of Health (DoH) in managing the coronavirus data vis the apology of the DoH is not new to the writers of this column, “Let’s face it” vis the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) handling of registered voters data and in the counting and canvassing of votes. Leachon’s perspective that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) could decide firmly based on the real-time and granular data generated by the DoH daily is our point of interest here.
Leachon’s concept of having effective data management may be traced back to when a French mining engineer, Henri Fayol, developed the general theory of business administration that was published in Administration Industrielle et Générale in 1916. Fayol’s theory (Fayolism) refers to the five elements of organizational management: planning (P), organizing (O), commanding (leading or L), coordinating (Cg) and controlling (C). Other theorists simplified Fayolism by combining L and Cg to come up only with P, O, L and C (POLC).
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