Explanation
When you are applying clustering technique and you find that there are quite a huge number of variables are available. Then it is better the find the co-relation among the variables and consider only one or two variables from the highly co-related variables. Because highly co-related variable will have the same effect, while creating the cluster. We can use scatter plot matrix among the variables to find the co-relation.
You can also combine several variables into a single variable. For example if you have two values in the dataset like Asset and Debt than by combining these two values like Debt to Asset ratio and use it while creating the cluster.