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Business executives only have 30% insight into the massive lakes of data their organisations produce and harvest, says Insight Consulting Director Upuli De Abrew. She says data only turns into useful information when businesses can make sense of it with active intelligence to derive actionable insights. De Abrew says Qlik is the only true end-to-end…

It is widely accepted that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation strategies. These investments are not made for their own sake, but to have a positive, measurable impact on a business. If one sits down with any C-suite, their reason for embarking on the journey is almost always to unlock value to become…

As the world comes to terms with the advantages that digitisation has brought to enhance efficiencies and competitiveness, most C-suites understand the value of business intelligence (BI). Simply put, an effective BI solution can save time, money and enable almost real-time decision-making that can have a material impact on a business’s performance. But how does…

Data is indisputably the foundation for success for any organisation in today’s world. Not very long ago, investing in data and associated management strategies was touted as a way to gain competitive advantage. With the rampant and unceasing growth of data in the world today, data strategies have now become a necessity for survival. The…

A data strategy should be as organic as a company: growing, changing and moving, responding to environmental and internal forces. With data and associated processes around data having historically been an IT function, it is easy to see why, as data permeates and proliferates the business world, data strategy has naturally fallen into the IT…

“End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.” UN, Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger South Africa’s analytical data strategy and business intelligence consultancy, Insight Consulting, is being credited with unleashing operational efficiency at Mauritius headquartered The Meridian Group. The group is the holding company of 23 subsidiaries across Malawi,…

Data culture must be firmly entrenched in the company’s corporate culture and also become a considerable portion of its data strategy. Corporate culture, an overarching term for the shared practices and values of a company’s employees, guides how the employees of a company act, feel and think. It is also the social and psychological environment…

One of the biggest challenges faced by organisations after they have invested large sums of money into business intelligence (BI) tools, is ensuring that key actionable insights end up in the hands of the people who need it to make important decisions. This is according to Sean Gordon, senior business intelligence developer at Insight Consulting.…

Design thinking looks beyond traditional procedures and practices of logic-based problem-solving, to the perspective of those who use the product or service. In the years that I have spent working on data projects, I’ve found those that deliver the most value and have longevity in an organisation are those where the end-users of the data…

Enterprises must prioritise security, governance and user adoption for successful implementation. The urgency of implementing enterprise data management strategies comes from an acute awareness that businesses need to put their data to work effectively to influence business decisions and efficiency, and ultimately help steer the direction of the business. C-suites understand that this urgency is…