BRAVE NEW BUSINESS

My basic principal in planning the new organisation is that managers require relevant information. Relevant in the sense of being available when decision is required, and also of being highly digested and without a mass of unwanted detail. The information to be made available to managers for decisions about the on‐going processes of the business will exist to affect their actions—not to invite their perusal. Thus we are deliberately setting out to reverse the trend in businesses where managers have been getting ever greater quantities of data at ever greater speeds.