Case study – Digital adoption in Retail
Aims and benefits This is a case study about a delicatessen outlet in the West Midlands area of the UK that roared back into life after the Covid lockdown period, thanks to their astute use of data. Prior to the lockdown, they had been looking for ways to boost visitor […]
Case study – Digital adoption in Logistics
Aims and benefits This is a case study about a transport company that successfully reduced its insurance premiums and claims and also delivered sustainable change through the use of data. FiguringOutData.com was commissioned to build a digital platform for a specific aim. To help reduce insurance premiums and claims. It […]
Why FiguringOutData
Given what we do, the name of our company is easy to explain. We help businesses to ‘figure out’ their data – how to put their data to work to help the business grow. This takes about 10 seconds to say which is helpful when in a crowded room and […]
A Smart Use of Mirrors
A company we served many years ago had an appearance problem. They had encouraged staff to wear casual dress to the office whenever circumstances permitted (e.g. no client meetings). But it wasn’t long before ‘casual’ became ‘barely acceptable’ with designer holes in jeans becoming larger by the week. A full […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stealthy Police and the electric bike.
We have been looking at data from electric bikes – that are ridden by the Police. The benefits are what might be expected e.g. they use the car less – so it’s cheaper and better for the environment. Other benefits are not perhaps so obvious. For example, the routes that […]
Tackling repetitive tasks – the copy & paste
How much time do you spend copying & pasting information? It’s worth measuring as activities such as these sit so centrally within the working day that we rarely think about the time they take. They can be made to disappear, especially those involving spreadsheets such as MSExcel and Google Sheets. […]
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’ […]