Data Analytics
The value of analysis lies in what it helps management decide.
We organise financial, operational and sustainability information into dashboards, comparisons and models that help leadership understand performance and assess its choices.
Discuss your analytics prioritiesRead the movement against a consistent period and reporting boundary.
Examine the drivers, assumptions and gaps behind the result.
Identify the exception, the implication and the question to resolve.
Selected work · A leading financial-services group
A connected dashboard programme brought business-wide indicators and functional measures into a common reporting structure. Leadership could follow a headline measure through to its definition, source and accountable team.
Approach / Leadership view
Focus on the priorities and exceptions that deserve management attention.
Keep the baseline, target and reporting period visible beside the result.
Connect the movement with its explanation and the decision it raises.
Approach / Departmental detail
Specify the unit, reporting boundary and source.
Identify the team that supplies the information and explains the movement.
Trace departmental measures into the management overview.
The engagement connected leadership dashboards, functional reporting and the underlying KPI register.
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From the measures a team reports to the assumptions leadership tests, we shape the analysis around the business question.
Bring the priorities into view.
Focus the leadership view on the measures that explain performance. Bring trends, targets and material exceptions together, with a clear distinction between reported results, future objectives and missing information.
Connect the overview with the detail.
Translate functional priorities into measures that teams can maintain and management can interpret. Define the source, reporting boundary and accountable owner, and connect detailed measures with the leadership view.
Understand what is driving the result.
Examine financial and operating information to understand performance. Compare periods, business segments or relevant peers and distinguish changes in the business from changes in the reporting basis.
Make the assumptions visible.
Establish a relevant comparison set and test how different conditions affect a decision. Assess peer positioning and model the implications of changes in commercial, operating or cost assumptions.
The discipline behind the analysis
Clear definitions and visible assumptions make the discussion about the business more productive.
A Vogabe perspective
A dashboard earns its place when it helps leadership decide where to act.
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