Imagine this…
…You are reviewing the weekly spreadsheet that’s just been delivered to your email. You spot an anomaly in the financial data that you don’t understand—despite the pivot table provided in the report that allows you to drill down to at least some level of detail.
You ask your operations analyst what’s going on. To which your analyst responds, “I’m not sure. Let me find out.”
The next day, the analyst tells you that the reason for the anomaly is the fact that productivity was way down at the manufacturing plant.