We’ve discussed at length how in today’s data-driven landscape, harnessing the full potential of data requires more than just technology; it necessitates an holistic approach that encompasses people, processes, and governance. This is where a Center of Excellence (CoE) for BI & Analytics emerges as a cornerstone for success.  A Business Intelligence CoE serves as...Read More

The continual quest for perfection, while it may never be fully realised, is not a futile exercise, since the continual process of identifying, executing and evaluating our goals is more likely to move us towards where we want to be within our organisations. But, when our goals and process are not aligned, it will undermine...Read More

Continual improvement is a process of constantly seeking ways to enhance the quality and efficiency of products, services, or processes. It is based on the idea that small, incremental changes can lead to significant improvements over time. Continual improvement can be applied to any aspect of a business. Still, it is especially relevant for Data...Read More

Over the last three weeks, we have discussed how KPIs are formed from an internal perspective of a process, and then other people have their own perception of what was laid down. The result can be chaotic for a business, with the very things designed to confirm success actually steering the organisation in the wrong...Read More

When we go into business, we usually have a fixed idea of our offerings and the goals we’d like to achieve. As someone who has been self-employed and the only member of staff to worry about, I always ensured that I put my customer’s best interests at heart from the moment they walked through the...Read More

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....Read More

Ethics, its massive, it’s a word that is on everybody’s lips. It implies fairness and justice, equality. Ethics is – “the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong”, so it intersects hugely with values and bias. Remember morals are defined by values and values are defined by...Read More

 I’d like to iterate from the off, this is a 50 000ft view of a massive subject …. So data governance in a compact and convenient nutshell, what is it and why is it more important than ever before? Modern day life and access to the fastest scene of developing technology that we have ever...Read More

I started Geordie Intelligence as a response to what I was seeing both in the corporate world around Data Analytics and big data where correlation and causation were becoming muddled to say the least. The final straw for me though was the Covid-19 Pandemic. I was working for a company at the time so was...Read More