I am amazed to think software literacy is here - I envisage the ability to use all the data sources, access the APIs - yet my own anecdata is most decisions trapped in spreadsheets, processes cutting across different apps and storage layers. It's still a mess.
And because it's such a mess, management is mostly about finding the "truth". If a reasonable version of truth were just there, how many people with managers as a title would we need?
Edit: I would also add that software writing is mostly limited to "coders" - most people in organisations don't have the training, and they don't have the access to the tools (permissions) and see above, why would they want it ! Literacy will be when the domain experts, can code as easily as they can write a report and do so to enhance their own needs.
It might be helpful to have a new term for what you describe. While literacy is a part of your vision, it’s not the most lacking part. As you alluded to before many in management know how to code, even up to the Gates and Zucks of the world, and yet here we are without them coding. What you’re dreaming of is the organization and accessibility of data/APIs. And even if you made everyone on earth software literate as you describe that in and of itself wouldn’t help the data accessibility problem.
So how can we get to a world where every decision a manager makes can be informed by an API? Hard to imagine.
Furthermore, I don’t quite agree that managements job can be reduced to truth finding. There’s just as much if not more trade-offs, values, accountability, human management (will there even be an API for 2 of my reports aren’t getting along?), etc. The world is complex and messy, too much so to be 100% defined in code.
I don’t see how this can be distilled into an API worth managements time without very strict schema and behavioral restrictions/enforcement or without AI that does the simplification and aggregation for you.
And because it's such a mess, management is mostly about finding the "truth". If a reasonable version of truth were just there, how many people with managers as a title would we need?
Edit: I would also add that software writing is mostly limited to "coders" - most people in organisations don't have the training, and they don't have the access to the tools (permissions) and see above, why would they want it ! Literacy will be when the domain experts, can code as easily as they can write a report and do so to enhance their own needs.