Training Your Reporting Staff
Employee training is essential for an institution’s success. Despite the importance of training, there can be resistance, with claims that training costs too much and takes employees away from real work. Proper allocation of training budgets and resources requires...
Juggling Priorities And Ranking Report Requests
Our world today is swamped with data. More data than ever before is available to help us make decisions. Whether this abundance of information is actually helpful to decision-making or instead leads to analysis-paralysis depends largely on our system for prioritizing...
Seven Steps to More Flexible Dashboards and Sustainable Reports
Picture the following scenario: The boss calls at 3:30 P.M. wanting a report on specific data and charts for a presentation first thing the next morning. Quickly, you run an SQL statement to dump the data into a spreadsheet, filter it down to exactly what is needed,...
How to Gather Requirements and Solve Problems
You’ve heard the expression “first things first”? It sounds obvious, but as you’ll see, we can’t take anything for granted or assume things will get done as expected unless we take pains to spell out the necessary steps. To start with first things first, it’s very...