Better data, smarter business

SMELTING your data, TEMPERING your information, and empowering you to FORGE a smarter business.

Why do you need a good data strategy?

Data drives decisions, decisions drive performance.

The ‘Data Management Body of Knowledge’ estimate that “organisations spend between 10-30% of revenue on handling data quality issues”.

Have you ever asked yourself: “what’s the price tag on my organisation’s data hang-ups?”

Regardless of where you are at in your data journey, we are here to assess, provide cost-effective solutions, and highlight tangible benefits.

Together with you we will co-create a strategy tailored to your needs. For some, a good ol’ spreadsheet does the trick. But perhaps you need much more—more resilience, more ease of access, more processing power.

Data management isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but we can’t get enough of it.

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INFOSMITHING your data strategy

Our methodology revolves around smelting your data to create more efficient data structures, tempering your data management to derive insights from your data, and forging a smarter business by delivering enhanced processes. Here are some of the benefits you can expect:

SMELTING your unstructured data into process driven solutions by:

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  • assisting with creating data structures and processes that ensures you get the right data, in the right format, from the reliable sources;
  • allowing for secure and efficient storage ready for future insight needs;
  • tracking and documenting who needs what, how often and in what format from you, thus reducing surplus reporting and making sure your stakeholders get what they need.

TEMPERING processes to provide automated analytics by:

  • future proofing your data and reporting you get more from your data enabling you to efficiently access the right information in a useable format with increased functionality, trended views, forecasting, etc.
  • automating reporting to reduce human errors, to accelerate raw-to-report data processing, leading to increased time to derive insights.

Systems improvements to FORGE a smarter business by:

  • merging data sets or transferring data between systems with minimal manual intervention/ effort;
  • expanding your services or setting up new systems, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations, thus preventing loss of functionality and preventing superfluous costs.

"I need a new data strategy. Now what?"

Getting started in 3 easy steps:

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Step 1: Fact finding call/meeting (Free 20mins)

What your pain points are, how we can help? Asking questions around current and desired outcomes.

Step 2: Investigation (costings and time scale agreed during fact finding call)

Time spent with your teams, seeing how you use data/systems. Noting key steps taken in your process and improvements that can be implemented.

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Step 3: Bespoke solution recommendations & implementation

The specification will provide the relevant areas of improvement to be implemented and highlight the projected impact on your business in the future.

INFOSMITHING your data strategy with our key services

Data “M.O.T.” and Data valuation

Our evidence-based and ground-breaking methodology provides a focused health check and valuation of your data.

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Data Strategy and Governance

Set a direction your board can back and your teams can execute.

Process and Platform Improvements

Remove manual steps, connect your systems, and make the data flow reliable.

Reporting and Analytics

Automate the raw-to-report journey and give leaders insight they trust.