Ah, you know the answer...
As companies grow, reports multiply. More slices, more dashboards, more recurring views. On paper, transparency improves.
In practice, it becomes harder to see what actually matters.
Where does sight get lost?
Reports don’t connect into one picture. Attention scatters. Signals drown in detail. Everything looks important - which means nothing really is.
So, what transparency really means?
It isn’t a volume. It’s the ability to quickly spot deviation from normal. Too many unstructured reports create glare, not clarity.
What I cut without regret? I reduce reporting to a management core:
• one primary control view
• a few diagnostic layers
Everything else moves to on-demand. Permanent noise is not transparency.
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