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29 posts filed under Analytics.

Apr 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Maturity Assessment You Can Do in 30 Minutes

Most maturity assessments take six weeks and a consulting firm. This one takes 30 minutes and a whiteboard.

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Apr 12, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

The Data Quality Crisis: 67% of Executives Don't Trust Their Analytics

Executives stopped using the dashboards. They didn't trust the data. Here's how we rebuilt trust in 10 weeks.

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Apr 11, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Wardley Mapping Your Data Stack (Build, Buy, or Outsource?)

Your custom Airflow setup is not a competitive advantage. Your customer analytics model might be.

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Apr 8, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Contract That Saved a Product Launch

The data contract didn't save the launch. It saved the three days of firefighting that would have followed.

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Apr 5, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks

This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.

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Apr 2, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

2026 Data Hiring: From 'Find Unicorns' to 'Build Balanced Teams

The unicorn data engineer doesn't exist - but the balanced data team does.

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Apr 1, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

The "Just Use Excel" Moment (And Why It Happened)

When the CFO opens Excel instead of your dashboard, your data team has already lost.

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Mar 29, 2026 Fractional Journey & Lessons

The Fractional Engagement - 2 Days Per Week, EUR120K Impact

A client budgeted for a full-time data architect they couldn't find, so we tried something different.

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Mar 22, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Contracts Rollout - From Chaos to 60% Coverage in 90 Days

Data contracts sound great in theory. Here's what it actually looks like to implement them - week by week, with the parts that almost …

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Mar 13, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Self-Service Analytics Maturity Ladder

"Self-service analytics" at most companies means "we gave everyone PowerBI access and hoped for the best."

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