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My Take: Orphaned Reports
Gary Lemke, Chief Customer Advocate   (December 18, 2012)
 
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As the end of the year approaches, it's time for a bit of housekeeping. Let's talk metrics and reports.
 
One CRMAdvocate reader wrote, "When I was in charge of a very large contact center I decided one night to visit the MIS guys who were running the overnight reports. I asked the manager how many reports on average they produced per night. To my surprise he said 350! I said you have to be kidding! Why so many? In addition to core reports that I wanted for my management team there were other reports that went to different groups outside of our center. I told him to pick a couple of reports each week and stop running them. If people complain then we know they are reading them. You know what, no one complained!"
 
Maybe this is a corner case situation and most reports in most organizations are actually read and acted upon. I don't think so. Are there reports in your organization that get produced on a regular basis that have no impact on decision making? How do you know for sure what metrics actually get used?
 
CRM analytics and Big Data are more important than ever. Is it time to make room for new measures by jettisoning the old ones?
 
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