Problem route / Reporting & decision systems
Get decision-ready visibility without rebuilding the same reports every week.
The data can exist while the answer still takes hours to assemble.
01 / Recognition
What may be happening
- Spreadsheets are consolidated by hand
- Different teams use different numbers
- Reports depend on one specific person
02 / Consequence
What to measure
- Reporting hours removed
- Faster access to information
- Fewer conflicting numbers
- Decision latency
03 / Investigate first
Define the decision before the dashboard
- Which decisions the report is meant to support
- Where source data is reliable or incomplete
- Which metrics need definitions first
- What the team should see without asking
04 / Possible systems
Automate the answer, not the spreadsheet ritual
- automated reporting layer
- decision dashboard
- metric definition system
- data quality monitor
05 / Build or do nothing
Bad definitions do not improve when automated.
Agree the source of truth and metric definitions first. Build only when recurring assembly is the actual bottleneck.
Start with the decision people are waiting for.
Then trace why answering it still requires manual work.