For more than 20 years, I’ve had the privilege of working in management consulting. Today, I help lead a data analytics and AI practice focused on empowering our clients with meaningful insights. One of the most rewarding aspects of this journey is connecting directly with customers at conferences like NACUBO, where conversations on the expo floor often reveal the real, urgent challenges institutions face.
How many times have you spent hours building the perfect dashboard, only for it to be used once, maybe twice?
Data analysts love to produce engaging reports that generate end user collaboration. To drive solution adoption, data teams may need to meet users where they’re at in sharing reporting. Microsoft Power BI not only enables data analysts to build compelling visualizations to drive data storytelling, but it also offers flexibility in accessing content either through the Power BI service or embedding content directly into an organization’s own web application. For instance, embedding allows government organizations, nonprofits, or higher education institutions to share their data insights alongside related information all on one page for external users to consume. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the capabilities, approaches, and best practices for embedding content with Power BI Embedded Analytics.
Power BI is Microsoft’s platform for data visualization and discovering business insights. Its flexibility allows you to visualize limitless iterations of your data and generate insightful reports, but what happens when that data needs to make its way out of the dashboard and onto your desktop?
When shopping for a car, your budget drives you toward the make and model that you can afford. With a limited budget, would you test drive a Tesla or a Toyota?
Many mid-size organizations face the same predicament when developing their enterprise change management capability. Just like the family that needs a reliable vehicle and wants to get the most for their money, small and medium-sized companies need consistent enterprise change management to help them thrive and survive.
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As the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to face off once again in the Super Bowl, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric in analyzing NFL data. Keep reading to learn about the many components within Fabric’s cohesive platform and see how you can leverage them to gain insight into your data.
What I learned about doing 75 Hard the second time is you must have unwavering commitment.
Project management is more than a methodology; it’s a mindset and we use it more than we think. It can often feel that once your day job ends, managing playdates, parent-teacher conferences, your social calendar, and getting dinner on the table is a second job that doesn’t seem to pay as well or have a growth track. As project managers, it is easy to see the parallels between managing projects at work and managing life at home. Every project manager knows that a project timeline has a beginning and end, and within those points come planning, scoping, identifying risk, negotiating and diffusing conflicts, and creating a contingency plan.
The first post of this three-part blog series explained how a project plan and a contingency plan are keys to success. Whether you are planning for large-scale transformation or hosting a dinner party, having a plan and a back-up plan can reduce stress and help things to run smoothly. Today, we will cover tips and tricks for anticipating risk and planning ahead to mitigate risk in any project or your day-to-day life.
Implementing Workday as your new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is a significant milestone, but the process doesn’t end at go-live. Once the system is live, several critical steps are necessary to ensure successful adoption and ongoing system optimization and effectiveness.
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