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{{g}}The sign that your organisation has gone past its optimal size and is slipping into middle-aged spread. If your executives need [[MIS]] to understand how the business is getting on, it’s a fair bet the business is too big, unwieldy and complicated.
{{a|mgmt|}}The simplistic lens through which the upper echelons understand the grubby whole. The surest sign that an organisation has gone past its optimal size and is slipping into middle-aged spread. If its executives need [[MIS]] to understand how the business is getting on — to make it “[[legibility|legible]]” — it’s a fair bet the business is too big, unwieldy and complicated. ''If you need MIS, you’re part of the problem.''


{{Truism|If you need MIS, you’re part of the problem}}
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The simplistic lens through which the upper echelons understand the grubby whole. The surest sign that an organisation has gone past its optimal size and is slipping into middle-aged spread. If its executives need MIS to understand how the business is getting on — to make it “legible” — it’s a fair bet the business is too big, unwieldy and complicated. If you need MIS, you’re part of the problem.

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