Need your help responding to a discussion question with a post that is simple and straightforward.  I am in retail banking so if you could help me craft a response tied to retail banking that would be best.  I've attached the chapter from the text on correlation.  Here is the questions:

What results in your departments seem to be correlated or related (either causal or not) to other activities? How could you verify this? What are the managerial implications of a correlation between these variables??