What the finance committee annex is for — and what it is not
The annex is a working file for people who enjoy workings. It is not a second board, and it should never be thicker than the pack it follows.
Journal
The Journal
Short pieces from the studio on Kazbegi Avenue. They are written for secretaries, finance directors, and chairs who still circulate paper — not for a general audience hunting slogans.
Reading a variance without drowning the room
A red number is not a story. Here is the sentence we put under each headline figure so the executive KPI dashboard does not turn into a guessing game.
When the projector fails, the pack must still stand
Georgian boardrooms still lose power, light, and patience. An executive KPI dashboard that exists only on a screen is a risk we will not take for a client.
How an electrical fittings maker left eighty pages behind
A Tbilisi plant sent a stack that nobody finished. Cutting it to a headline sheet did not please every manager — and that was the point.
Five figures, not fifteen: what belongs on page one
A chair can hold about five numbers in opening remarks. Here is how we decide which ones earn the headline sheet of an executive KPI dashboard.