Why a Data Led Culture is key to success
Technology has given us access to exploding amounts of data. And with digital transformation sweeping businesses worldwide, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of data available for businesses to analyse and utilise. Gone are the days when businesses were run on assumptions. Instead, a modern, progressive enterprise […]
AI for success – the Digital Marketer
Data and AI help to make money for a business by showing what’s going on, and then explaining what to do next. Google Maps is a good example. Google uses its data to show you the journey ahead plus the time it’s likely to take. But if a delay happens, […]
Dashboard tunnel vision
The return to work post lockdown presents us with a great opportunity to rethink how we want to work with information. This is because we are being released from many of the conformities that have guided our working lives so far. For example, our organisations are going to feel different […]
Data visualisation for digital transformation
Successful digital transformations depend on several factors e.g. alignment of the transformation objectives with strategic goals, leadership, and the quality of the work performed. This article focuses upon perhaps the most important – people in the business owning the transformation process. This means that the people responsible for the services […]
To get more sustainable – start measuring
As Earth Day arrives more businesses are working towards greater levels of sustainability than ever before. The Green Business Bureau (https://greenbusinessbureau.com) has some good advice for those businesses wanting to push on down the sustainability path. Set it as a proper strategic objective and implement it on that basis. E.g. […]
It’s time to become data confident
The CBI Tech Tracker 2020 report (published Dec 2020) suggests that a divide is growing between businesses that are confident using data and those that are not. Those that are confident frequently use data to shape decisions, give feedback on products and services, and optimise operations. Unsurprisingly this gives them […]
Visualising data is more important than ever
There is little doubt that companies that have and know how to use data cope with adversity better than those that do not. A food outlet in Tamworth in the West Midlands discovered that, by using passenger counts for local buses and train services, traffic flow data, WiFi/Bluetooth detector counts […]
What is data?
To celebrate the launch of the figuringoutdata blog, we are starting by defining what we mean by data. Taken in the context of business efficiency (as distinct from, say, mobile phone usage) data can be formed from any set of numbers, any items of text, any image. It becomes ‘data’ […]