Business Intelligence / IBP / Planning and Forecasting
26 Jun, 2017
Great to attend the recent Akolade 2nd Annual Integrated Business Planning Summit in Sydney. A fantastic mix of content and presentations and many takeaways. I had many highlights, too many to list here but...
Business Intelligence / Business Management / System Selection / Useful Tips & Tricks
1 Jun, 2017
Weekly I help organisations tackle this question. It’s a big question and one with many considerations. The typical scenario is it is time to upgrade a critical business system. The ‘cost’ of the upgrade...
22 Mar, 2017
You’ve read the ClubIntel brochures. You’ve watched the demos. You can list multiple ways that ClubIntel will deliver value to your club and its members. It’s no secret that you want to start using...
Business Intelligence / CFO / Performance Management / Planning and Forecasting
16 Mar, 2017
Decision-making processes are key to your success. They direct resources, mitigate risk and exploit opportunity. Given the nature of business, decisions are both transient and fixed. Formal processes require evaluation and approval, e.g. budgets...
Business Intelligence / ClubIntel
10 Jan, 2017
I visited a club in Western Sydney the other week. I’d barely made it through the automatic doors when the operations manager rushed to greet me. “Graham,” he said, waving a printed report. “Average...
9 Dec, 2016
When you’ve worked in business intelligence for as long as I have, you get used to vendors making big claims about their products. Some argue that their platforms provide the most granular insights. Others...
30 Nov, 2016
When a competitor starts eating into your market share, or industry disruption threatens your business model, what do you do? Do you seek refuge under a desk and hope your company is spared? Or...
Business Intelligence / CFO / Performance Management / Planning and Forecasting
19 Jul, 2016
It’s normal to feel nervous when implementing a new budgeting solution using a software platform like BOARD. This is especially true if you’re moving away from spreadsheet-based budgeting and forecasting for the first time.
Business Intelligence / ClubIntel
28 Jun, 2016
Ask any club manager and chances are they’ll tell you that a good chicken schnitzel does wonders for getting people through the doors. And people are willing to travel in search of the best deal.
Budgeting and Forecasting / Business Intelligence / CFO / Planning and Forecasting
3 Jun, 2016
A survey of 1,245 planning software users has identified BI and CPM platform Board Software as the best for planning functionality.