Bad Reports
Symptoms (What do you see…)
- Incongruent reports. Finance data. Manufacturing data. Sales data.
- Data changes from day to day with no tracking of reasons why.
- Inadequate or meaningless info for business decisions.
- Report contains extraneous data.
Causes (What you’ve got…)
- People argue about what to do to solve problems.
- Everyone has a solution based on their own unique data set.
- Nobody can prove their case, as any case can be argued if there isn’t credible data to defend it or attack it.
- Management is frustrated because there is no accountability.
- Poor report design.
Solutions (What might work…)
- Fix the data.
- Implement report writing training.
- Produce matched, auditable reports.
- Improve or replace report writing application.
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