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CONTENTS
- Preface
Introduction
- Quantification: The Basis of Business Measurement
- The Assembly of Data: A Manufactured Goods Warehouse Analogy
The Historical Process
- Obstructions: Impediments to Accuracy, Completeness, Transparency, Timeliness, Availability, and Cost-Effectiveness
- Origins of Understanding: Transactions to Balances
- Clarity: Transparency, Traceability and Repeatability
- Posting and Reconciliation: The Original Business Systems
- Proliferation: Duplicative Data Supply Chains
- Time Zones and Clock Speeds: The Periodicity of Reporting
An Alternative Approach
- JIT Manufacturing: Just-In-Time Analysis
- The Metric Engine: Trusted, Aggregated, Structured Data
- Gathering Transactions: Data Supply Chain Part 1
- Low-Level Posting Data Supply Chain Part 2
- High-Level Aggregation: Data Supply Chain Part 3
- Scale: Producing the Goods
Conclusions
- Data Reactive Functions: Major Data Supply Chains
- Consolidation: The Impact of Change
Epilogue