5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — The economic outlook is not overly optimistic. I sat at a conference in Phoenix on Wednesday where an economist from ITR Economics was predicting a mild recession for 2023. The times of recessions offer companies a unique opportunity to modernise, digitalise, and automate. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Many private equity firms rely on spreadsheets or a static report sent via email to monitor their portfolio companies. According to PwC’s “Next in Private Equity” survey, thirty-six percent of portfolio company respondents simply respond via email. This manual process is not only inefficient, but also slow. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Despite the economic forecasts, for many companies 2023 will be about growth. As one private equity operating partner put it to me during a recent conversation: “The companies will be asked to do in the next five years, what they haven’t done in the last hundred.” With the rise of…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — A data leader needs to be in tune with their business, its strategy, needs, and context. Every industry has its specifics, every company has its own journey, ambitions, and challenges. Just as the image above illustrates different roles of data leaders when setting up a greenfield data function or supporting…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — The private equity market saw a slowdown in deal activity and fundraising in Q3 of 2022, with exits falling by 67% according to EY. This is due to depressed valuations and a widening disparity between buyer and seller pricing expectations. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — When reading some of the market outlooks for 2023, you realise it’s anyone’s guess what the market has in store. Even the experts from the biggest banks can’t seem to agree on what’s coming. …

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Carruthers and Jackson have recently published their Data Maturity Index revealing challenges companies are facing when getting the most of the data they collect. There are many approaches to assessing data maturity. As the industry is evolving and people are educating one another by sharing their challenges, best practices, and…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — From my studies of general mathematics I know that objects are defined by their properties, not names. Semantics matters, and what’s better to clarify a meaning than a formula codifying a definition? In many companies, people casually use terms like customer, product, transaction, sale, without common agreement on the details…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Despite 20 years of investment dashboard adoption falls flat. This is what we read in The decade of data e-book by ThoughtSpot. It also brings the chart above showing the adoption stalling at around 30%. ThoughtSpot’s answer to the problem has been letting the users ask the questions, not just…