Business Intelligence (BI) tools provide powerful reporting and analysis capabilities that help businesses harness data rapidly to inform strategic decision-making. All too often we hear the frustrations of working with disparate systems: data inconsistencies, data redundancies, lack of interoperability, wasted employee effort, misspent IT resources and, most of all, missed opportunities mounting up from continued reliance on these siloed systems. Invest in BI and experience dramatic improvements in efficiency. Increased data and reporting integrity and long-term viability. Extensive new capabilities for exponential growth in data tracking.
Data Culture may be technology-enabled, but it is people-driven. Everyone on your team has to understand that decisions based on accurate data are superior to decisions based on feelings and instinct. All users must have access to the data they need and know how to use it. Mind Over Machines partners with you to get your data house in order. That includes the mindset and the mechanics.
Data is the raw fuel, the crude oil, of the digital economy. It powers your decision making, corporate strategy and innovation. You may have to live in your data, but no one wants to live in a silo, or even a warehouse. No. You want to live on a Data Estate. Together, we’ll design, build and maintain the demesne of your dreams.
By creating robust data models and accompanying visualizations of your data, you can unlock actionable insights to take gain a competitive market advantage and increase long-term stability. We can create personalized and branded reports and dashboards that speak your data language.
Some of my best friends are IT professionals. As a data analyst, I know how important infrastructure is. I’ve got nothing but respect for data architecture, security, and governance. But business landscapes evolve quickly. It can be tough for IT to keep up with user needs. What happens when data demands change faster than you…
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 ranks “data analysts and scientists” #1 for growing job demand, but the two roles are NOT interchangeable. Even before global pandemic struck, companies were struggling to make their data work for them. Now, thanks to the Great Reshuffle, your data analytics team (if you were fortunate…
You’ve already got the dread. You have your eye on an enterprise application that seems perfect for your business, but the internet is screaming at you: 101 Reasons CRM Projects Fail!427% of ERP Projects Fail!Abandon hope all ye who enter here! Yes, the digital transformation failure rate is still hanging tough at 70%, and there…
Global business spent $189 billion last year on big data and business analytics solutions, and IDC says that number will climb to $274B by 2022. Yet Gartner reports 91% of organizations fall short of “transformational” data and analytics. What are we doing wrong? Maybe the problem is how companies think about their data. Data used…
A prestigious university and hospital system was working through financial analysis with too many spreadsheets that took too long to pull and verify. They needed real-time dashboards and quick-to-market development help! Enter Mind Over Machines.
Data storytelling is the most powerful tool your organization has to motivate your team into acting on business intelligence (BI). But data storytelling isn’t just charts and graphs. It’s much more than clear, concise data visualizations. So, how do you tell a compelling data story that inspires action and elicits change? I’m so glad you asked!
Humans have been telling stories for as long as we’ve been on this planet. Our stories connect us and help us make sense of the world. In his book “The Storytelling Animal,” Jonathan Gottschall says our love of narrative is what sets people apart from all other species. Now that our economy increasingly runs on data, it makes perfect sense that we humans need to storify all those facts and figures in order to really engage with them in a meaningful way.
Every business has to grapple with the legacy terror this client was facing: You’ve outgrown a core system, but it’s so intrinsic to daily operations that you just can’t replace it.
