3 April

This week I shall write some input on challenging the process.

My company has been around for 11 years. Part of my new role is to prepare some management reports. I’ve inherited these reports from the previous person-in-charge and he told me he has been preparing 10 reports ever since he took the job many years ago. I look at the reports and I think some of them are quite irrelevant and I believe no one will place any importance to these reports.

Shall I take out these irrelevant reports and put in only the important ones? Will someone jump if I take out these reports? Can I identify anyone who actually reads these reports? So far, my peers and bosses say they flipped some of the reports like reading a tabloid leisurely.

Maybe I should challenge the process. Maybe I should not distribute the irrelevant reports and see who will come screaming that the reports are amiss…