The Meeting Moment We’ve All Lived Through You’re in a meeting. A chart flashes on the screen. The title says: “Revenue by Region.”...

In 1975, a Kodak engineer built the first digital camera. Leadership shelved it, fearing it would eat into film sales. For decades, they...

Coherence is what makes the difference between numbers leaders hear — and stories leaders act on. The Problem With Jumbled Stories Picture this. You’re in a boardroom and the analyst begins: “Profits are down 20%.” “Turnover has risen to 25%.” “Customer satisfaction is 65%.” All true. But with no links, the room is confused. What’s driving what? What do we do next? It’s like hearing The Tortoise and the Hare  out of order: First the hare naps, then the race begins, and finall

If everything is important, nothing is remembered. A client once presented a 60-slide deck to their leadership team. It had everything: regression outputs, pivot tables, exploratory charts. By slide 20, attention was already fading. By slide 40, people were checking emails. We reframed the story into just three points: Sales had dropped 20% in the last quarter . Repeat customers had fallen by 50% year-on-year . If nothing changed, projected losses would hit $5 million  in the

Data doesn’t change minds. Stories do. We live in a world overflowing with data. Dashboards, reports, AI models — they’re everywhere. Organizations invest millions collecting and analyzing information, hoping it will lead to better decisions. Yet ask business leaders what keeps them up at night, and many will say the same thing: “We have the insights, but they don’t translate into action.” This is what I call the last mile of analytics . You can run the race, but if you stumb

The Headlines vs. The Big Picture In May 2025, SkillsFuture’s latest Graduate Employment Survey sparked a wave of headlines. Employment...

You’re scrolling through your feed on a Monday morning.The headlines scream: “Mass layoffs at tech companies.” A few swipes later, you...

Walk into any corporate town hall and you’ll hear it: “ We’re becoming a data-driven organization.” It sounds visionary....

Having spent more than two decades working across telecommunications, ICT, Smart City, IoT, and Command-and-Control (C3) environments, I...