COMED, my power company, sends out a monthly report that shows me my energy consumption relative to my neighbors. Every month I’m considerably higher than all my neighbors. This report also has a list of things I could do to reduce my energy consumption. The problem with this report is that it doesn’t take into account my house size relative to the other houses in my neighborhood. My house is the largest model and accounts for about one-third the local sample size. If I were to attempt to reduce my energy consumption so that I would be in line with the monthly average of my neighbors, I would probably have to adopt a lifestyle akin to the Amish. Hence, I call this the Anonymous Neighbor Problem and, I believe, is responsible for driving decisions that are thrust upon IT leadership from executive business managers.