Data-driven decision-making to change the course of a business, is so internally disruptive it's unlikely to happen in an org-chart culture full of management layer.

Because that's what it is:

- It is attempting to question, critique, override, everyday decisions made by the management (including the CEO) based on available data.

- It is doing that with maximal knowledge of the whole organization. That means all the records, finances, secrets, what not, have to be divulged to the data-science team. (which in itself is an unsurmountable challenge, i.e., to convince the management to allow full data access; think emails, chat logs, meetings minutes of CEO's, VP's, etc, etc).

This will make the management go, "so let me get this straight, I authorize you access to data of the whole organization, and you come up with a conclusion (some of the times at least) that I'm full of it?"

I highly doubt any organization would be up for this kind of internal disruption, even if that means more success for the company.