Notes on data, decisions and the gap between them
Short, practical pieces on what goes wrong with company data and what fixes it. Written for the people who run businesses in Malta, not for data teams.
Build next year's budget on numbers your whole team agrees on
Next year's budget is often built from exports each department produced differently, then left in a file. How to build and track it on one set of numbers.
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Why Power BI dashboards go unused, and what fixes them
Why Power BI dashboards go unopened while leadership still asks for the spreadsheet, and how one source, agreed definitions and an AI layer fix it.
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KPI examples for a Maltese business, department by department
KPI examples for sales, finance, operations, customers, people and marketing, with the definition each one needs, and how to track them without rebuilding a spreadsheet every month.
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Why two departments never agree on the number
Sales says one figure, finance says another, and both of them are right. The problem is not the software. It is that nobody wrote down what the word means.
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What a data warehouse actually is, and what it is not
Not a database, not a dashboard tool, not your accounting system with a bigger hard drive. A plain explanation for a managing director, with no vendor names.
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The monthly pack is costing you more than you think
The hours are the visible cost. The errors, the arguments and the decisions made a fortnight late are the ones that never appear on a timesheet.
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