Dive in >> Find the Path >> Zoom Out
Dive In: the data ‘defrag’
Perform a “Data Defragmentation”: this is the first step to understand the landscape of your data. We can do a cursory view of a couple of systems, or a deep dive. This will allow us (and you) to understand the who, what, when, why, and how of your data assets.
- Data inventory/exploration
- Map to outputs and products
- Understand process
- Discovery of column inconsistencies
- Identify risks and pain-points in operations and data
- Discover unknown unknowns
- This is your map of the current-state process. It is a messy, zoomed-in view of the details of your value-chain operations
Find the Path
This is where we map what your data does to the operational context. From attaching costs, hours, and timeline days to your projects, this is a full operational view of your business derived from data. We take what we learned from the data defrag and apply a new level of understanding around it.
- Visualise your operations
- Visualise the time it takes for you to perform critical tasks
- Operatonal cost analysis
- Find opportunities for automation and for data governance
- A list of problem areas and quick-fixes
- Identification of integration issues
- A draft data governance plan
- A discovery report—what we found and how to avoid pitfalls
With these outputs, we can guide you to automation of the data pipeline and begin to sketch out some of the metrics for working with outside capital. This will help us to get a level of confidence.
Zoom Out
This is your top-level, C-suite view of your business. This is a full-fledged package of dashboards to help you and your investors understand your operations clearly. This is a snapshot of what your company does, and includes items that can guide your operational and data future.
- Venture-capital dashboard deck, including
- Spend Cube Analysis (multi‑dimensional spend view)
- Data Governance plan
- Investor KPI dashboard
- Analysis of inventory levels, turnover, and ageing
- Assess warehousing footprint storage costs
- Identify network optimisation opportunities
- Review end‑to‑end supply chain processes
The plan here is to closely work with the VC portfolio manager and understand the specific metrics they use, and mine the data for that and present it in a way that makes sense for them.