Good people but HiPPO decision making - Senior Product Manager Premera Blue Cross Employee Review

Premera has wanted to become a data driven company for years now, but hasn't been able to make the shift from HiPPO (Highest Paid Person in the Room) decision making to data driven decision making. It's not intentional, I am in no way suggesting Premera leadership is giving lip service on being data driven. But going from decades of a stagnant industry to a technology era is a difficult transition, requires fighting a lot of inertia, and takes courageous leaders. At the end of the day, Premera hasn't been able to make that change yet. And because there is no systematic way of measuring what works and what doesn't, the HiPPO continues to make decision, surrounding himself (most Premera HiPPOs are male) with agreeable senior and mid management, and success cannot be distinguished from failure, and the vicious loop continues.