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Your Power BI Report Is Slow. Power BI Is Probably Not The Problem.
A slow Power BI report is almost always a data model problem wearing a Power BI costume. The usual culprits, and the order to fix them in.
The Spreadsheet That Became A System Nobody Maintains
Most businesses run on spreadsheets, and for a long time that is right. The trouble is the day one of them quietly becomes the system of record.
Business Central Runs Your Business. It Should Not Run Your Reports.
Business Central is a brilliant system of record and a poor analytics tool. Why finance keeps ending up in Excel, and the pattern that gets them out.
What The Pub Trade Teaches About Your Numbers
A well-run pub survives on thin margins by watching a handful of numbers daily. Most businesses with ten times the margin have a tenth of the discipline.
Hire For The Next Decade, Not The Last One
The instinct is to hire a copy of the person who built your success. In a field moving this fast, that is how teams quietly age out. Hire for how people learn.
Work From Happy, And Why We Put A Number On It
In a consultancy the people are the product, so culture is not a perk, it is upstream of the work. Why we measure how our team feels, and why buyers should ask.
AI Will Not Replace Your Analysts. It Changes The Job.
AI is not replacing analysts. It is eating the dull half of the job and moving the value to judgement. Here is the safe place to start using it this week.
MCP, AI Agents And The Governance You Now Need
The Model Context Protocol lets AI assistants query and act on your live data. Two checks decide whether it helps you or leaks at conversational speed.
Today Versus Tomorrow: The Data Leader's Toggle
Running today's reporting while building tomorrow's platform is a delicate balance, and today always wins because today shouts. How to protect tomorrow.
Your Data Strategy Should Fit On One Page
Most data strategies are long documents nobody reopens. A strategy you cannot hold in your head guides no decisions. The five questions that fit on one page.
A Dashboard Nobody Opens Is Not A Tool Problem
Most dashboards get ignored after the first look. That is a requirements failure, not a technology one. The one question to ask before you build the next.
The Data Engineering Layer That Decides Everything
A beautiful report on bad data is a fast way to be wrong. Two questions reveal whether your Fabric and Power BI foundation is solid, and the right size for you.
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