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About Philip Mair

Consultant, CDP
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Dashboards and data visualisations

Significant amounts of dense or confusing quantitative information can be a challenge to understand, even for those who are experienced in reading complex data. When intricate data sets are more streamlined... read more →
  • 09/06/2016
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
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Human cognition and data visualisations

Not everyone learns the same way; some of us are undoubtedly more visual learners, others more aural, and some are more textual. Despite the differences in various ways we all prefer to... read more →
  • 21/05/2016
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
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Essential tips for dashboard design

When it comes to tracking the performance of your business and employees, it's not enough to simply calculate a series of figures and distribute them to the relevant people. Modern... read more →
  • 22/03/2016
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  • Dashboards & Visualisation
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The benefits of active reports

In the modern world, business intelligence is about more than making your organisation work smarter - it's about getting the right information to the right people, who can then analyse... read more →
  • 25/02/2016
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  • Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Visualisation
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Are financial planning and business intelligence inextricably linked?

Business intelligence (BI) has played a huge role in how businesses strategically manage their endeavours. Consequently, BI is unrivalled in its usefulness in the decision making process. However, as the... read more →
  • 17/06/2015
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  • Business Intelligence, Planning & Forecasting
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Is business intelligence the key to increased enterprise agility?

Today's business environment is reactive by its very nature. While some enterprises will try and second guess their respective markets, doing so without a solid foundation of information is not... read more →
  • 27/05/2015
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  • Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos Active Reports: They take a bit of effort but I like them

I haven’t had the need to create Active Reports. Actually the truth is that I haven’t put enough effort into working out what they can do and how useful they... read more →
  • 16/05/2014
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