Based on your day-to-day interactions with employees, you know that they’re really struggling. Stress. Burnout. Caregiving responsibilities. Illness. Substance abuse. Some are even talking about leaving the company. Your gut tells you that they could really benefit from a company-sponsored wellness program. But unless you can show the C-Suite the Return on Investment (ROI) for… Read More

Owning Your Employee Retention Data in 2022 With the New Year many of us are taking on new habits, including tracking things that are important to us. Our water intake each day. The number of steps we walk in a day. The number of minutes we spend on our smartphones each day. The same approach… Read More

Studies from Bain & Co. and Harvard Business Review show that companies can 5X their profit by increasing their customer retention rate just a few percentage points. Curious about how this could help your own business? Who are you keeping? And more important, who are you losing? I’m offering a 1 Hour Laser-Focus session on… Read More

Thanks to the hard work of scientists, we’ve got vaccines against the coronavirus, and thanks to our dedicated healthcare workers and government leaders, they’re actually getting into the arms of fellow citizens. So now that we’re getting vaccinated, when do we head back to the office? Not so fast. According to a recent survey by… Read More

I was invited recently to join a panel on Clubhouse about restaurants and how data can help them. One topic kept coming up: just how important it is for restaurants to understand the data about their customers. It’s gold. Pure and simple. What’s that have to do with how well you know your customers?  Everything.… Read More

Data analytics for small business is an oxymoron, right? It’s something that only the Big Guys have the time and money to pay attention to, you say? Not so much! Knowing your data, understanding the patterns and trends in your customer and sales and product numbers, is something that businesses of all sizes need to… Read More

Graphs are a useful way to communicate data succinctly, and to emphasize important or surprising findings. Like the graph above, where I plotted the percentage of total land area that’s made up of forests. A quick glance shows that the situation is pretty dire, right? I mean, look at that steep drop from 1990 to… Read More

Don’t handicap yourself by only graphing your data at the end of your project. Channel your inner Yogi Berra and do this from the get-go. Read More

Right now, we’re all struggling. Our families, ourselves, our jobs, our businesses….this coronavirus pandemic caught us all off-guard. One way to navigate through the uncertainty is to use your data as a guide. I’m offering a free, 30-minute consultation to businesses and organizations that want to use their data as a tool to figure out… Read More