Introduction: The Hidden Risks in Your Spreadsheets Imagine an Allied bomber plane returning from WWII, riddled with bullet holes. At a first look, the obvious answer might be to armor the areas with most holes. But statistician Abraham Wald realized…
Most small business leaders make critical decisions with incomplete information. While enterprise organizations invest millions in predictive analytics platforms, businesses with 50 employees typically rely on manual reporting processes that deliver insights weeks after trends emerge. This timing gap has…
Introduction: When Experts Spend Their Week in Excel In accounting, insurance, and legal firms, the highest-paid people are often the ones buried in spreadsheets. Partners, directors, senior associates, spend 10+ hours every week: None of this time is billable. None…
Sarah’s marketing agency grew from £300K to £1.2 million in two years. Success should feel good, but every month-end brings the same problem: her team spends entire days trying to figure out which leads are active, which projects are profitable,…
When the COO of this fast-growing B2B SaaS company first called me, I could hear the tension in his voice. The company had reached €950,000 in annual recurring revenue with five talented salespeople, which should have been a celebration. Instead,…
How I uncovered profit leaks, optimized routes, and transformed chaos into clarity using Power BI and strategic analysis The Challenge: When Success Hides Serious Problems The Investigation: What the Data Revealed Step 1: Data Archaeology Step 2: Building the Financial Picture Step…
In 2025, generative AI (GenAI) is changing the field of business intelligence (BI). Modern BI tools are no longer just static dashboards and manual reports, but they’re evolving into intelligent assistants that help users analyze data, generate insights, and even automate tasks.…
This is how I transformed a chaotic spreadsheet into a clean, automated BI system that tracks revenue, conversion rates, and reps performance in real time. The client was tracking their entire sales pipeline manually in Google Sheets with three different…
In this article I will deep into the two leading cloud data platforms: Databricks and Snowflake, by examining what they are, their core components, their key differences, market insights, and a simplified explanation for those new to the topic. Both…
This is the third part of a 3 parts project, you can find the full project here. In the third part of the IBM HR Dashboard project, I want to guide you through the process of transforming raw data into…