Seat-of-the-Pants Management Alternative --Dickeson

If only we had a table by jobs for the last quarter, the last 13 rolling weeks, we could lay out a clear, meaningful strategy, couldn't we? If only we had that table!

What would it take to get it? First we'd have to have a metric—a measure—of hours, by job. We'd need job hours by each of those categories: hours the paper was in raw inventory, in process, in billing and in collection. If we kept it in weekly chunks, we'd know each week where we were heading, what progress we were making, or not making, by category. Perhaps we could do it all by hand and put the results on a spreadsheet.