Practical articles from the people who build the systems: what tends to go wrong, how we check it, and what we would do again.
Forget the headline-grabbing demos. The changes that are reaching ordinary businesses this year are narrower, cheaper and less glamorous than the coverage suggests. Here is what looks durable, and what to be sceptical about.
Read articleMost dashboards get built, admired once, and then ignored. A visualisation strategy is mostly about deciding which questions deserve a screen, defining each number once, and making the result fast enough that people open it on Monday morning.
Read articleForecasting does not need a complicated model to be useful. A practical walk through setting a baseline, testing a forecast honestly, and telling decision-makers how uncertain it is.
Read articleDescribe what you are working on. We are happy to say what we would try first, even if it never becomes a project.