The Decision Engines ◾ 111
But the low integration score of our nonprofit client indicates a trans-
parency problem. Specialist competency and relevance were just fine. Our
audit, tax, and financial services professionals were able to tell our client
exactly what went wrong during the previous year, the time that our client
representatives were making their choices. Unfortunately, the timing of the
presentation of that audit and tax information was way too far in the future
to be useful to the executive function’s decision-making processes, so it
didn’t meet our transparency requirement.
In our theoretical Case No. 2, the exact same VMI score of 28.8 indicates
not primarily a transparency problem, but an Everything-Else Department
that’s eithe ...