Reporting tasks are done no more than monthly. Once the job takes longer, management often moves to quarterly or semi-annually especially if the risks involved

Reporting tasks are done no more than monthly. Once the job takes longer, management often moves to quarterly or semi-annually especially if the risks involved in not-knowing are limited. For many types of information, real-time calculations and dashboarding instead of monthly calculations and powerpointing would be preferable, but the same cultural issues apply. Moving from reporting to dashboarding is disruptive for people and processes. And since big businesses tend to create value for the customer via standardization (up to a point), there is a clear reason for the dislike of disruption too.