Improve your profit, measures actions execution
The above statement seems too simple to be true. Improving your profit by measuring whether everyone has completed his actions. Yet it seems applicable to almost all companies and institutions. Often KPIs are defined, and during meetings applicable actions are discussed and assigned. Day to day activities prevent the execution of these actions. In the MT meeting it becomes visible that a number of key actions are (again) not performed. For management it is difficult to act upon that, as they often themselves lack the execution of their tasks.
How to break this “catch 22” situation, and thus improve your profits? Measure actions execution, and publish status daily. Those who execute their tasks, score points for their "Karma". A positive competition will start on Karma-scores, which reflects directly into your bottom line results!
Visualise your Big Data yourselve
You probably recognize the situation where your excel files or databases contain lots of data. The challenge is to make steering information from these data sets. You start to make queries and show the results in pretty charts and graphs. The "die-hards" among us may even conjure with PivotTables and integrate several databases. With the results the next challenge of real analysis arises. Often you need just another section, isolate a particular group of data, analyse trends or zoom in on a date range.
What is relatively unknown is that tooling is available to perform these tasks easily. Tableausoftware.com is one of them. It allows users in a simple and interactive way to crunch your own as well as public data. So do you want to increase the productivity of your knowledge workers, consider purchasing Big Data visualization software. The business case will be very attractive!