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The business of love or the love of business

31-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture

It does not matter if you are a Technophobe or a Technophile; you will have a mixed relationship with technology. Some annoy you, offend you, make you smile or even laugh. Regardless of what the technology is, we form a “personal” relationship with it. Attributing human characteristics to technology or anthropomorphising is not uncommon; at...

Sustainability

17-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Culture

Here we are already at week three of January 2024! How are you feeling? We spoke about the New Year and going into it with new intentions, being excellent until it becomes a habit. In week two, we discussed that the journey is long and requires many steps. That is why it is also important...

Small Steps – practice excellence

10-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Culture, Data Management

A week into the year, we find ourselves starting to repeat difficult tasks and question why we are doing this. Believe us when we tell you that is normal. First, let us answer the question about how we ended last week. “Practice excellence, and it will become habitual”. This is the challenge we have to...

New Year, New Start

01-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture

Our Data Tale reminded me that a Christmas Carol is about taking stock, reflecting on what you have been doing, and ultimately thinking about where that will take you. In the original (non-Geordie) version, the impact is more profound. The crux is that Bob Cratchit gets to spend more precious time with his family. To...

The morning after that night.

20-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Analysis is deeply embedded in organisations; all accountants expect some level of analysis from you, even if it is as simple as “Total Monthly Sales”. The open secret of the analytics industry is that those “What happened” or Descriptive Analytics will never go away. In fact, they will continue to make up the vast majority...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic: Part Three

13-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Scrooge became vaguely aware of the inside his eyelids being lit up as the sun shone through the window. As he lifted his head from his pillow, he wondered what on earth might happen next. He wasn’t sure whether he’d been asleep or actually on some wild escapade it had all felt so vivid. He...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic: Part Two

06-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Ebeneezer is visited by the ghosts of Data Present and Data Future, but will their insight help to change his ways?[/caption] Apparently, today was a good day; sitting in her stunningly minimalist office, the only thing that disturbed her was the steady flash of lights as the computers processed people’s requests. Life was great, no...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic

29-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Ebeneezer sat there rubbing his hands with glee as the phone rang off the hook. “Hello, Ebeneezer’s taxis… name, where from, where too?” Rather than chancing their arm, people seemed to like that a taxi would turn up right on time, just for them. He also liked that he got to have minimum exchange with...

Just in Time… not just for manufacturing

22-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

When I decided I wanted to start a Power Platform Consultancy, I was doing it with very mixed feelings. Across my career I have worked with many of the big consulting firms as well as smaller consulting firms. I have had mixed experiences, and one of the things I wanted to make sure was that...

Geordie Data

25-Oct-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Governance, Data Management

The last three weeks have been introductions for many into the world of what is needed to achieve business success as far as your data is concerned. This topic is one where the certainties are normally the legal limits of what you can do. In other words, it can be a tricky landscape to navigate....

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