Introducing Praxis Insights Health Check: Making the Invisible, Visible

How many hours each week do you typically struggle to secure reliable metrics and charts needed for your work? What’s the hidden cost of this struggle on your budgets, productivity, and overall business outcomes?

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What’s the point of investing in external providers or in-house teams delivering high-budget insights and analytics reports and dashboards if they don’t answer the Senior Management Team’s key business questions?

If you find yourself agreeing with any of the following, you can be 100% sure your Insights and Analytics Capability isn’t fit for purpose.

Do you experience any of the following issues daily?

Here is an extract of what we audit when running a Health Check for you:

1. Metrics and KPIs are wrong
2. Metrics and KPIs are not defined. Who signed them off?
3. What are these dashboards and reports really about? They don’t tell us anything.
4. How can you perform pre-production UAT without having requirements on hand? 
5. Where are the documentation and business requirements regarding our analytics?
6. It can take one hour (and this is quick!) to get any fundamental business figures confirmed, often only as a rough ‘estimation’. This will especially happen during board meetings or strategic business meetings, as the figures we were given appeared to be wrong, with as a consequence not the best impact on our image/brand.
7. Who is the owner of business definitions used across given dashboards?
8. Who is in charge of data quality and its governance and compliance towards GDPR?
9. Who defines, designs, tests and validates algorithms, scripts and logic used across the data and analytics, as well as the Stats/Data Science / ML / AI team?
10. Where is the mapping of ETL and data lineage processes?
11. ETL processes keep failing unexpectedly, hence dashboards are not refreshed/up to date. We often realise this only when end users complain.
12. Is dashboarding Agile development becoming the last tree that hides a dead forest?

You can also estimate the annual, and consequently weekly, cost to your business of not having immediate access to what should be standard insights.

The resulting loss of productivity and impact on your work and business outcomes becomes readily apparent, and we can help you address this concern.

We can assist you in fixing these issues back to normality and good standards.

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