Monthly Archives: August 2018

Big data is the panacea to all our problems… or so we are told.  All over the world, we’re seeing organisations catapulting to exciting new levels by leveraging their data in ingenious ways.  Companies should consider these 5 ways to give data to those you need it, to solve problems successfully. However, plenty of companies […]

Very few companies are leveraging data. The headlines scream otherwise as we are told that every company has big data and is using it to conquer the world. But this is simply not true. Are you guilty of data ignorance perhaps? What is true is that most companies are very interested in Big Data and […]

How many Book1.xls do you have? Like almost every firm out there you’ve probably got a whole bunch of these files on your server. The IT department hates it.  But to me, these files indicate something important. These files are an indication that some staff are engaging in exploratory analysis.  An analytical playground, if you […]

Let’s face it; the default graphs in Excel are indeed far from sexy.  Regardless of whether you realise that creating a cohesive dashboard, or engaging report, requires a lot of effort and essential design concepts. Possessing design skills is a significant benefit here, but many of us struggle with this. If you are the curator […]

You are just about to walk into the board room and present the paper you’ve been working on for the past 2 months, and its time to convince the board. What’s running through your head?  You skim over your proposal, review the potential push backs, run through your prepared responses, take a few deep breaths, […]

Paragon industries called us about a problem they had with their dashboard.  They desperately needed to avert a DIY dashboarding disaster. They’d created a KPI dashboard using an off-the-shelf dashboard software application and were having challenges with certain types of graphs.  They needed our help in finishing their dashboard. After meeting with the team, it […]