I witnessed something last month that still keeps me up at night. I was sitting in a meeting for a manufacturing company. Seven-figure BI investment. Dozens of sophisticated reports. Years of development work. But here’s what they told me is actually happening...
I posted something on LinkedIn this week that clearly hit a nerve: “You spent €200K on BI. The CFO still uses Excel.” Thousands of impressions. Dozens of messages. One comment changed how I think about this entire problem. A data platform engineer called...
“We have more dashboards than ever. Why are we still getting blindsided?” Here’s what’s actually happening: Most BI systems are built to show you what has already happened. Revenue, costs, production, quality. All updated daily. But...
Executives don’t rebuild dashboards because they enjoy Excel. They do it because they asked BI a question on Monday, and by Wednesday, they still don’t have an answer they trust. Here’s what most people miss: BI is the only IT system leaders actually...
There’s a particular way people say the word “fine.” Not excited. Not frustrated. Just a quiet shrug that says, “We don’t know what else to do.” Dashboards and reports fall into that category far too often. You’ve probably seen your own version of this. A question...
In many companies I work with, BI looks perfectly fine on the surface. Dashboards and reports delivered on time, the data checks out, and nothing suggests a limitation. And yet — when decisions need to happen quickly, BI often doesn’t keep pace. Not because the...
