Power BI to the People
It wasn’t long ago that only the elite could afford great BI solutions. The power of great analytics, visualisation and data discovery was only available to large corporations or IT savvy teams with great...
Category: Business Intelligence
Key problems with Annual Budgeting: insights from Oliver Wight’s Stuart Harman.
Many businesses are either still in their annual budgeting process, or have just finished and are taking a breath. It is often a long, arduous and heavily manual process, typically unloved by the business....
6 Factors to consider in a self-service BI tool
Data analytics over the past few years have been democratised and made accessible to everyone. You no longer have to acquire special skills just to be able to analyse and visualise your business’ data. All you need...
4 Tell-tale signs you need a self-service BI tool
You have probably reached this blog because you feel the need to validate your hunch that you need a better way to analyse your data. Nobody would just wake up one day thinking that...
My key highlights from the 2nd Annual Integrated Business Planning Summit
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...
Upgrade or Change
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...
The anatomy of a perfect ClubIntel pitch
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...
The age of decision-making platforms has arrived!
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...
Turning 9 cents into $100K: How smart clubs approach revenue growth
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...
Believe the hype – Qlik handles 2 billion records in 24 minutes
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...