Reporting · Distribution · Component
The rhythm
How often each report goes out, matched to the decision it serves rather than to what is convenient to produce.
The deliverable
What it is
Reporting faster than decisions are taken produces noise and consumes production effort. Reporting slower produces irrelevance.
The mismatch is common in both directions and is visible by comparing the reporting rhythm with the meeting calendar.
One level in
What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The frequency
How often it is produced.
3 attributes: Reporting frequency · Decision frequency · Matched
LearnThe lag
How long after the period it arrives.
3 attributes: Production lag · Available time · In time
LearnThe mismatch
Reports produced more or less often than they are used.
3 attributes: Direction · Wasted production · Corrected
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A daily report feeding a monthly decision is produced twenty-nine times for no reason.
The other components in distribution
The route
How it reaches people — pushed, published or alerted — because each suits a different kind of information.
LearnThe timing check
Whether it arrives before the decision it informs — the check that determines whether good reporting has any effect.
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