Most companies do not have a reporting shortage. They have hundreds of reports. What they lack is agreement on which ten actually drive decisions, and confidence that those ten are correct.
The Golden Tier is a structured framework that resolves both problems. We interview the operating leadership, map the decisions each function actually makes on a weekly and monthly cycle, and work backward to the information required to make those decisions well. The output is ten reports, ranked by decision value, each with a defined owner, a defined cadence, a defined data source, and a defined tolerance for what counts as correct.
Then we build them, in that order.
"Reporting that is not attached to a decision is overhead."
Five disciplines. Applied in sequence.
The framework applies five disciplines, in sequence:
The complete framework, including the decision interview structure, the sequencing model, and the validation standard, is available as a briefing document. Request it below.
What you receive.
A written framework document defining all ten reports, their owners, cadences, and data sources
The built reports in Power BI or your existing reporting platform
A validated data layer, typically stored procedure based, that survives the next ERP upgrade