Your Boss Wants an AI Strategy. You Have a Spreadsheet from 2019
Why 80% of AI projects fail before they write a single line of code—and how to make sure yours isn’t one of them. Let’s be honest. The pressure is on. Somewhere in your inbox, there’s an email from a Director or a CEO. It probably arrived late on a Sunday, and it probably says something […]
Why Your Data is Lying to You (And How to Fix It)
A single data point is often misleading. In fact, looking at data in isolation is the fastest way to make a bad business decision. We see this problem constantly in risk, fraud, and customer management. You have a customer record in your sales system. You have a different record in your support system. And you […]
Why We Don’t Care Which Coding Language You Use
There’s a frustrating trend in the consultancy world right now. You talk to a partner, and before they’ve even heard your problem, they’re telling you the solution. They tell you they’re a “Python-first shop” or they only do Microsoft Azure. They have a preferred vendor list, and miraculously, the solution to your unique business problem […]
BI vs Predictive Analytics: How to Predict the Future
Most organisations we walk into are drowning in reports. They have dashboards for everything. They have monthly board packs that are fifty pages long. But if you look closely at those dashboards, they all do the exact same thing. They report the news. Sales were down 5% last week. We churned 12 customers in Q3. […]
Why Lift and Shift is the Most Expensive Way to Move to the Cloud
Cloud migration is the default strategy for almost every modern business. But simply being in the cloud isn’t a strategy. The biggest mistake we see is the lift and shift approach. This is where a business takes its existing on-premise servers, with all their inefficiencies and legacy spaghetti code, and simply hosts them on Amazon […]
AI Isn’t Magic. It’s Just Maths and Engineering
There is a massive disconnect right now between what businesses think AI is, and what it actually looks like in a working P&L. If you believe the LinkedIn hype, AI is about generating text or creating images. But for the businesses we work with, and for our own internal operation, AI is about something much […]
Why Your Team Still Exports Everything to Excel
We’ve seen the same story play out in boardrooms for nearly 20 years. A company spends a fortune on a new Business Intelligence platform. They build slick, colourful dashboards. They roll them out with a big announcement. Two weeks later, everyone is ignoring them. Or, even worse, they log in, look at the pretty charts, […]
Is Your Data Architecture Actually Costing You Money?
Most businesses we work with don’t realise how much their data infrastructure is actually costing them. We’re not just talking about the monthly invoice from AWS or Azure. We’re talking about the cost of waiting. If your team sits around for 20 minutes every morning waiting for a report to load, that’s dead time. If […]
Stop Buying Software and Calling it a Strategy
We’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years. And for nearly 20 years, we have seen the same expensive mistake played out in businesses across the UK. A company realises their reporting is slow. They can’t see which product lines are actually profitable. They panic. So they go shopping. They sign a six-figure deal for […]
Why Data Governance Consulting Matters (And Why It’s Not Just Red Tape)
Let’s be brutally honest for a second. When you hear the phrase “Data Governance,” your pulse probably doesn’t race. You might think of endless meetings, box-ticking exercises, and people from the compliance department telling you “no.” But here’s a reality check for you: if your business wants to use AI, automate boring tasks, or just […]