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The Top 5 reasons Business Intelligence can help NDIS and disability providers
What is Business Intelligence? In practical terms, it’s a system that allows us to combine many sources of data and present that data in a visual, easy to understand way. Why would BI be useful to an NDIS provider? Here are the top 5 reasons: 1 – You have a LOT of...
Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Data?
Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Data? We see a lot of companies that sit on a gold mine of data but don’t know how to extract its value. You may be making your best effort to use your data to gain insights, but are you getting everything you can out of your data?...
How Data Analysis Has Changed in the Last 10 Years
Over the past ten years, technological change has had a major impact on efficiency, creating new processes and products that create can a better business. Data automation has brought in a new level of efficiency highlighting the negative impacts excel can have on a...
Is Your Data Safe?
From June to December 2019, more than 500 data breaches were reported in Australia. This was an increase of 19% over the previous six months. Health service providers were the leading source of data breaches, accounting for 22% of all breaches. Most of these were the...
Forget the tool, focus on the data
Overwhelmed by how many Business Intelligence tools there are? Toustone CEO Craig Lefoe, explains how what you choose is not as important as how you get there. Many business owners and professionals get to the point where they know they need to become sophisticated...
The underrated value of engaging a BI expert
Don’t think you need to go it alone when using your data to make crucial business decisions. Nobody who has experienced the power of business intelligence (BI) done well, doubts its potential to transform a business. However, getting started and then effectively...
Six signs your business needs a Business Intelligence solution
Are you sitting on top of valuable insights hidden in your data? Today we’re sharing six of the most common signs we’ve observed your business needs a BI solution. We are living in an information rich world. Every day we have the capacity to create and store more and...
What if Santa hired a Business Intelligence Consultancy?
Santa’s a busy guy – the whole year rests on getting one night right. As the world’s population increases, Santa needs to store and analyse more and more naughty and nice lists, wish lists and delivery locations. The elves have worked out that a well-designed data...
How to Capture Data for NDIS Providers
The NDIS brought in many changes for community health groups to overcome, but change can only lead to innovation. The introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is causing significant and fundamental changes to the way services are provided for...
“The Way We Do Things Around Here” – Dangerous Words for Any Organisation
Are we making decisions based on facts or habits? Using data to make better decisions driving better outcomes. We’ve heard it before – the same old thinking gets the same old results. But sometimes our business practices become so subtly ingrained that we forget to...
5 Advantages of Data-Driven Organisations
Data-driven organisations make data science a core part of their business strategy, processes, and culture. Data-driven organisations use data to revolutionise their business by creating a platform for fact-based decision-making. Being data-driven has clear advantages...
Is Excel Running Your Business?
Excel is an amazing tool when developing reports, but the flaws quickly become more evident when multiple versions of the truth begin to waste time and cloud judgment. Spreadsheet software like Excel used to be the go-to tool for business operations, for everything...
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