How are you guys creating the glossary for your reports? Office 2010 doesn't have much support for it so it seems a lot of time could get wasted repeating work.
I was thinking since so many analysts seem to hate writing, the glossary seems like something that could be automated. As you write, just paste the terms in notepad, have a script parse the list and generate the glossary using predefined definitions the community has come up with. Each term could have definitions with varying degrees of technicality so you can account for different readers by running the script with a different option. Maybe even skip notepad, and just have it grind through the document and create a glossary of terms it recognizes, but that might be too automated… or is this not even a problem?
I don't know who your audience is, but I think that if you are writing for non-technical people and are using so many technical terms that you need to automate the generation of a glossary, you may be going about it all wrong. That being said, when I do need to define a term within a report, I typically do it within the body at a logical point in the telling of the story. If I want to include additional information, I do it in a footnote.
I do have a glossary with commonly used terms, definitions, and citations that I keep updated. I primarily use this to keep things consistant across reports and I cut and paste from this into my reports.