Three systems, three cut-off dates, one spreadsheet.
The campus system counts as at the official statistics reporting date, the ERP at month-end close, the learning platform continuously. Anyone turning that into a figure for the meeting first has to decide which cut-off date applies, and do so for every faculty separately. Nobody ever writes the footnote, and in the meeting someone asks for it.
3source systemsCampus management, ERP and learning platform, each with its own cut-off date.
9facultiesEach with its own degree programmes, cost centres and utilisation.
18indicators per briefingFrom utilisation per degree programme to the share of third-party funding.
2 working dayspreparation per meetingPulling everything together, aligning cut-off dates, explaining variances.
Two working days of preparation per meeting shrink by 60%, because aligning the three cut-off dates is no longer done by hand.
The 60% reduction in preparation time is this agent's headline figure. Whether a university has nine faculties and spends two working days on a briefing depends on its size and structure; the calculation above works through a mid-sized case.