Audit >> Build >> Advise
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
An in-depth data dictionary, plus VC-level dashboards
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
The Outputs: a top-level view
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.
Review end‑to‑end supply chain processeswith outside capital. This will help us to get a level of confidence.
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
- 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
- Identify network optimisation opportunities
From here, we can stay on as an advisor with limited capacity on a small retainer for up to 10 hours a week. The purpose here is not to continue to do the work, but to advise what needs to be done.
We can help with communications, procurement of vendors, hiring, and interpretation of the data regime.