Business Intelligence
Measuring a Company When a Company Is Mature
We take a look at the business fundamentals of the operations stage — the last of three stages in a company's life.
Business Intelligence
Understanding the Scale Stage
The scale stage is the second of three stages in a startup's life. In this post, we discuss what product-market fit means, and then we look at healthy growth (the kind that leads to winning) and unhealthy growth (the kind that leads to company death).
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
Measurement Before Product Market Fit
A startup's first job is to create a customer. We take a closer look at how that affects the metrics you measure at the product stage of a startup's lifecycle.
Business Intelligence
How Metrics Change When Your Company Grows
When your company grows, the metrics that matter changes along with it. Here's a look at the three growth stages of every company, along with the metrics that matter most at each stage.
Business Intelligence
Business Fundamentals
The Magic Money Machine Model
One way to get better at business communication is to learn the fundamentals of business. We explain Return on Invested Capital from first principles, written with the data analyst in mind.
Business Intelligence
Clearer Communication: How To Use The Ladder of Inference When Communicating Data To Your Business Users
If you work in data analytics, communicating complex information is just part of your job. Here's how to use the Ladder of Inference to get better at it.
Business Intelligence
Data Quality from First Principles
Why data quality is an ongoing, people, process, and tools problem, and how to think about getting better at it.
Data Modeling
Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs) In The Age of The Cloud Data Warehouse
What a new approach to slowly changing dimensions tell us about the future of dimensional data modeling.
Business Intelligence
When Doing Digital Transformation, Think Capabilities, Not Maturity
Why maturity models can be a bad idea, and why using a capability model is a better idea for digital transformation.