Business Management Cycle
The Business Management Cycle is a good way to visualise how any company should work with Business Intelligence. Starting at the top left of this model, data is captured from various storage systems, there can be many of course. This raw data feeds the next box which is ‘Analysis’. In Analysis, data is converted to […]
Why Lean Data will stop you worrying about Big Data
Every once in a while a new concept will come along. It is interesting that these new principles will trigger several behaviours in business leaders: panic, band wagon jumping, head in the sand or pragmatic consideration. I would like to encourage the latter of these with the concept of Big Data and offer the antipathy; […]
TfL: Capacity and Demand Modeling Tool
The Transport for London (TfL) Cycle Hire Scheme has rapidly become iconic on the Capital’s streets. This TfL mode of transport is often called the “Boris Bikes” as they were introduced by Boris Johnson’s mayoral administration in 2010. Its popularity has surpassed expectation with some 10,000,000 journeys a year, and rising. However, anyone who owns […]
The Chiltern Railway Company: Adding Value and Reducing Complexity at Chiltern Railways
HSQE (Health, Safety, Quality and Environment) is of course very important to a railway business. The sheer number of passenger and public interactions with a breadth of infrastructure: stations, lines, crossings and trains make it complex. The Chiltern Railway Company Limited had a legacy spreadsheet system that was developed by a member of staff who […]
Small Marketing Firm: Two days’ work, reduced to a single click!
A small internet marketing business based in East Yorkshire had a reporting problem. By their own admission the report format was not great but that was not the major problem. It was taking two days each month to produce the reports from various data sources. Two days a month is a lot to lose for […]
Linpac Packaging: Multi-Lingual Data in Russia
Linpac Packaging has been producing food packaging for 50 years and has 13 sites around the world. Like any manufacturer they have a keen eye for cost and manufacturing efficiency. Anyone who knows efficiency improvement and management will know the first step is to measure effectively. It is important that the efficiency measurement is simple, […]
Robinson Engineering: Automated Invoicing
Vensis don’t just work with large businesses. Robinson Engineering is a small family-run business based near York. The pain of wasted time is even more apparent for a small company as it is so visible with a direct line of influence to profit. When Jim Robinson spends hours generating invoices he is not delivering the […]
If your toaster could take you to the Moon, where could your computer take you?
In 1969 man landed on the Moon. The Apollo 11 Mission’s lander, The Eagle, had similar computing power to that of a modern day toaster. Imagine the complexity of the data that tiny computer could handle in real time with technology approaching 50 years old. Back in 1969 few businesses had computers. Things have certainly […]