Three Reasons to Stop Using Spreadsheets to Manage Your Business
The hate often comes from the difficulty to get beyond a simple view of “what is happening” and into the more complicated “why things have turned out the way they have.”
Improve Your Strategic Planning by Increasing Trust in Your Data
It is getting to be strategic planning and budgeting time here in many companies, but no matter when your planning season is, don’t begin without an essential ingredient: your trusted data.
Effective Data Strategy Requires a Balance of Offense and Defense
In this view of data strategy, defensive activities are centered on minimizing risk and include activities like regulatory compliance, detecting fraud, preventing theft, and insuring the accuracy of the data. Meanwhile, the offensive activities are most often customer-focused and include data analysis and modeling to inform customer retention or acquisition strategies and support financial decisions.
Manufacturing Data Excellence: Reduce – Reuse – Recycle
The small and midsized manufacturers we work with understand the need to update their manufacturing and supply chain processes. Our clients are pressed for resources, especially time. needed to make sweeping changes to take full advantage of newly affordable manufacturing technology.
Raw Data By Itself Is Useless To Your Company
Raw data is of little value to a business, until it is turned into information. Information isn’t much more valuable, until it used to enable knowledge. Then you have something to really useful to work with, to differentiate from your competitors, to operate smartly and profitably.
Industry 4.0 To Become More Of A Reality For Manufacturers In 2018
Industry 4.0 -- Automated processes that are real-time integrated through continual data exchange between machines, applications and businesses. “Smart” factories are born from this, together with a transition from manufacturing just products to creating valuable services tied to those products.
