By department · Management and strategy

Plenty of data, little direction: where do you start?

A board rarely has too few figures and usually too many. Choosing three drivers, building a fixed rhythm around them and agreeing when to escalate delivers more than one more dashboard.

Do you recognise this?

What we do

We help you choose, which three drivers steer the result, what rhythm are they discussed in, and when does someone step in.

The work itself is described under data strategy and business intelligence.

Which route we do this through

At board level it usually starts with New Data Squad: an experienced consultant who works out what is missing and what returns money or time first. After that New Data Student does the executing work at a considerably lower rate: the same guidance, a different rate. New Data Search comes in as soon as it is clear which role you want in-house permanently.

Questions we get from Management and strategy

We have plenty of data and little direction. Where do we start?

Not with a tool and not with a dashboard. Start with the question you ask every month and cannot answer reliably today. Answering one such question well delivers more than ten dashboards, and it immediately shows what is missing from the data.

Should we hire or contract?

That depends on one question: will the role last. If it will, hiring is cheaper and that is New Data Search. If you do not know yet, contracting through New Data Student is the answer, and through DetaVast you still take the professional on at no cost, from 1,200 hours worked, roughly seven months full time.

What if we know something is wrong but not what?

That is exactly what the New Data Scan is built for: one day on site, five dimensions, fixed price, and a roadmap for 30, 60 and 90 days with an owner for each step. No obligation to continue.

What it delivers

These are indicative figures from earlier work and not a promise. What it delivers for you depends on where you are now.