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Education · Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min read

Where education data pays back

Enrolment, assessment and student success: three places where boards, colleges and universities see returns first.

AI & BI · Jun 25, 2026 · 5 min read

The weekly executive briefing, drafted by AI and checked by people

A Monday briefing drafted by AI from certified numbers works when rules choose the exceptions, a person reviews every draft and trust is earned first.

Microsoft Fabric · Mar 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Real-time data and AI change the operating rhythm

Real-time data and AI turn weekly reviews into continuous management, but only some decisions benefit, and alerts must stay worth reading.

AI & agents · Feb 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Human in the loop: approval steps for AI agents

AI agents now act, so leaders must decide which actions they take alone, how a person approves the rest and how autonomy is earned.

Generative AI · Jan 21, 2026 · 4 min read

From pilot to production: scaling generative AI beyond the first use case

Pilots stall on ownership, evaluation, cost, support and change, not on the model; closing those gaps turns one use case into a portfolio.

Public sector · Nov 26, 2025 · 5 min read

Public sector reporting: five requirements to settle before the first dashboard

Government reporting programs rarely fail on charts. They fail on requirements discovered late. Five to settle first.

Sales & marketing · Oct 7, 2025 · 5 min read

Next best action without the black box

Sellers follow recommendations that come with a reason; explainable models show the signals, learn from field feedback and prove uplift against a control group.

AI & agents · Aug 14, 2025 · 4 min read

AI agents in operations: from alert to action

Alerts that only notify get ignored; agents that gather the evidence, propose the next step and open the task close the loop.

AI & agents · Jun 18, 2025 · 6 min read

Is your data ready for AI agents?

Agents are only as good as the semantic layer they read. A practical readiness checklist.

Report design · Jun 3, 2025 · 5 min read

Designing reports for people and for AI

Executives and AI assistants now read the same reports, and the design rules that help one reader help the other.

Data quality · May 22, 2025 · 4 min read

Five data quality checks that stop wrong AI answers

Completeness, freshness, reconciliation, duplicates and orphans, and definition drift: the five checks to run before an AI assistant reads the data.

Data & AI strategy · Apr 9, 2025 · 4 min read

Measuring the value of AI in analytics

Five measures, each with a baseline taken before launch, show whether AI in analytics is paying back.

Finance · Mar 20, 2025 · 5 min read

Prompt libraries for finance teams: making AI answers repeatable

A shared library of tested prompts, each with its data, format and owner, gives finance the same answer to the same question.

Governance · Feb 18, 2025 · 4 min read

Trust before speed: checking AI answers against certified numbers

Before an AI assistant answers leaders, prove its answers match the certified figures with a test set of real questions run on every change.

Machine learning · Jan 9, 2025 · 4 min read

Explaining why a number moved

Driver bridges, anomaly scores and a language model that cites its drivers give leaders the why at the same moment as the what.

Information security · Jan 7, 2025 · 5 min read

Securing data and AI: five decisions for leaders

As analytics and AI reach more people, information security becomes a leadership decision.

AI & BI · Dec 19, 2024 · 5 min read

The analyst’s job in the age of AI

As AI drafts charts, queries and commentary, analysts move from building reports to curating definitions, testing answers and framing decisions.

AI & BI · Nov 5, 2024 · 5 min read

From forty slides to one living briefing

Report packs take days to build and minutes to read; one living page that updates itself and explains what moved serves leaders better.

Microsoft Fabric · Oct 17, 2024 · 6 min read

A pragmatic path to Microsoft Fabric

Move in thin slices, put everything in Git and verify with data—not with a green checkmark.

Finance · Sep 5, 2024 · 5 min read

AI-written commentary for financial reports, and where it still needs a person

AI can draft much of the variance commentary from the bridge, but judgment, one-off items and the outlook still need the controller.

Microsoft Fabric · Jul 18, 2024 · 4 min read

What an AI-ready data platform looks like on Microsoft Fabric

Five properties make a Fabric platform safe for AI to read, and only some of them need to be built first.

Power BI · May 23, 2024 · 5 min read

Before you switch on Copilot in Power BI

A practical preparation list: clear names, hidden technical fields, synonyms, certified measures, tested questions and a rollout that starts with one team.

Supply chain · Apr 25, 2024 · 6 min read

The seven processes a supply chain control tower has to measure

Most control towers are a wall of dashboards. The useful ones measure seven processes and route every exception to a person.

Governance · Mar 13, 2024 · 4 min read

An AI use policy for analytics: what to allow and what to review

A short policy people can follow: approved tools, which data may go where, review before release, logging and a quick way to ask.

Generative AI · Feb 21, 2024 · 5 min read

How generative AI changes the monthly business review

Generative AI turns the monthly business review into a short narrative drafted from governed numbers, while judgment and decisions stay human.

AI & BI · Jan 25, 2024 · 5 min read

The semantic model is now the interface for AI

When AI answers business questions, it reads the semantic model rather than the report, so names, descriptions and certified measures become the interface.

Generative AI · Nov 22, 2023 · 5 min read

Answering from your own documents: a practical pattern for policies and procedures

Generative AI can answer staff questions from your own policies and cite its sources, if the documents, access rules and testing come first.

Automation · Oct 26, 2023 · 5 min read

Turning invoices, contracts and forms into data

Document intelligence pays back when business rules check every field and an exception queue handles the doubtful cases; touchless processing is the measure.

Machine learning · Sep 13, 2023 · 5 min read

Early alert is the easy part: measuring whether follow-up works

A risk score is only the start. The programs that work design the follow-up and the measurement before the model.

AI & BI · Aug 15, 2023 · 5 min read

From dashboards to answers: what natural-language questions mean for BI teams

With executives asking their data questions in plain language, BI teams must anticipate questions, define every term once and show where each answer comes from.

Machine learning · Jun 13, 2023 · 5 min read

Forecasting with machine learning: when it beats the spreadsheet, and when it does not

A machine learning forecast wins on long history and stable drivers, a planner on launches and one-off events; a fair back-test shows where each belongs.

Finance · Nov 7, 2022 · 5 min read

Replacing the budget with a rolling forecast: what changes in month one

The annual budget is out of date before it is approved. A rolling forecast fixes that, if finance changes what it does each month.