Category Archives: Better Business

The finances of many organisations today…perhaps including yours…are organised much like the Victorians organised their factories.

While it’s tempting to want to be perfect, perfection comes at a cost – often a cost that negates any potential benefits from pursuing that perfection.

Numbers alone only get you so far. After a while, you probably need more qualitative information, external to your organisation. That’s often where the real information lies.

As the business world has become more and more metric-focused over the years, it’s becoming ever-more apparent that just having more metrics at your disposal does not make businesses better.

Be careful what you wish for…especially when you’re trying to optimise the performance of your organisation.

Processes can bring business benefits. But, remarkably often, they don’t. Here’s how to spot them and what to do about them.

Do you make business decisions in the future or in the past? The difference to the success of your business can be substantial.

Should you trust AI? Probably not as much as the people selling AI solutions would like you to believe.

If the underlying data is suspect, or presents an incomplete view of the problem, it’s easy to end up taking entirely the wrong decision just because the numbers you are presented with would suggest that’s the best course of action.

It’s really easy to measure trivialities, but really had to measure achieving your overall outcome. Here’s what to watch out for…