You’re Not Alone—Smart Teams Are Drowning in Spreadmarts You’ve built a successful business. Your team is smart, your operations are humming, and you’re making progress. But under the surface, something feels off. Each time leadership asks for a report, it’s a scramble. Your analysts are constantly reconciling numbers between different spreadsheets. Your finance lead has […]
Getting buy-in for data projects can be tough. A couple of years ago, I was consulting with a division of a large telecommunications company. They had asked me to evaluate their current data management processes and make recommendations. During one of our conversations, when data governance came up, the IT team told me they had […]
“We had the KPIs—we just didn’t trust the data.” — A mid-market CFO recounting their reporting struggles For many growing SMBs, the desire to be data-driven is there, but the execution is anything but. You know the KPIs that matter. You’ve imagined what good reporting could look like. And maybe you’ve even tried a few […]