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 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 So Many Data Projects Fail – And How to Avoid the Same Mistakes
Ever wonder why so many data projects crash and burn before they even take off? The scary truth is that 60-85% of them fail before delivering any real value. At assimil8, we’ve seen it all—projects that never got off the ground, initiatives that collapsed under their own weight, and businesses that wanted to be ‘data-driven’ […]
Data Strategy: Data Consultancy Explained
It’ll come as no surprise to anyone that 2024 was the year of data. Thanks to the rise of ChatGPT and the many tools that followed, data became the buzzword of many a boardroom. Data is a raw material that powers decision-making, fuels innovation, and drives growth. But like any resource, it must be managed […]