Radical Reporting

Introduction

And so it begins

If you have bought this book, or even borrowed it, you must be in desperate straits. After all, reporting is painful – and anything radical doubly so.

You may see reporting, and individual reports, as a problem to solve. True enough, they tend to linger on most office workers’ to-do lists. Many people admit to loathing reports – both writing and reading them. Some may claim to love writing them, to find the process easy: “The words just flow,” they say. I suspect their readers don’t always love reading the result quite so much.

However, whether you love or loathe writing or reading reports, you probably see far too many bad ones. Bad reports do not exist in isolation, of course. They are often the product of individual ...