Data & Analytics
Gain AI & Data Business Foresight See what’s coming early enough to actually do something about it. Most reporting tells you what has already happened but by the time you read it, the moment to act has often passed. Foresight points the other way, at what’s about to happen, while you can still change the…
Gain Automation & AI Autonomous Operations The repeatable, manual work that holds your business together now just runs on its own. The approvals, the follow-ups and the data moving from one place to another so the notifications that depend on someone remembering them simply happen, reliably, in the background. The invisible overhead of people holding…
Pain Escape Excel Hell! How much of your business runs on spreadsheets? Excel is a wonderful tool, easy to use, understood by everyone and quick to plug the gaps where systems fall short. That is exactly the problem, because the very thing that makes it so useful is what turns it into your biggest hidden…
Pain Swivel Chair Syndrome Are your people your system integration layer? When two systems can’t talk to each other, someone has to be the go-between. They read a value off one screen and type it into the next or export a file from here and upload it over there, all day. It’s the kind of…
Most business leaders know when something isn’t quite right. Revenue grows, teams stay busy, technology spend is healthy, yet margins remain flat and everyone feels permanently stretched. The visible costs are managed deliberately – headcount, technology, premises – but something else is consuming resources without appearing cleanly on the profit and loss account. It’s the…
Excel has earned its place as one of the most versatile tools in business history. Yet for all its power, many organisations are quietly drowning in it. When critical reporting, forecasting, and decision-making depend on endless manual spreadsheets, you are not managing data – you are managing chaos. Escaping Excel Hell with automated business reporting…
Where We Went Wrong with Excel For decades, Excel has been the quiet workhorse of business life. It has modelled finances, tracked sales, forecast demand and helped managers make sense of the numbers. But somewhere along the way, that helpful spreadsheet evolved into something far more dangerous – a sprawling maze of formulas, links and…
An Alternative History of Computing – Part One Editors Note: All images created using Sora AI by OpenAI and are based on how the writer remembers them. After a recent #GreggsWalk we sat around the diner at work discussing various things – wide ranging topics such as BBC Sounds podcasts, football, the features and benefits…