In non-profit management, a strong budgeting process is more important than ever. Making the most of your resources and planning strategically can help guide your organization and allow you to do more good. The budgeting process for a not-for-profit can look similar to a for-profit business, but there are some…

“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” — Jean Luc Godard Replace “reality” with “data” and you’ll understand just why storytelling with data is so important to business success. You can be tracking all the right key performance indicators (KPIs), be compiling all the best statistics, but the…

Performance analytics can help with the overall operations of an organization. They can cover anything from employee alignment, to systems and resources, to strategic goals and priorities. If you’re not tracking performance analytics, you’re likely missing out on greater insights into your business or non-profit agency. Performance analytics can be…

Raising money can sometimes seem to be outside of traditional business rules but applying business intelligence principles to fundraising can be extremely helpful. Fundraising — whether it be corporate fundraising or not-for-profit — runs on numbers. And those numbers translate into data. Data helps your organization spot new opportunities and…

Including business cash flow in your budget forecast is a great idea no matter what stage your company is at. No matter how innovative your products, how great your marketing, or how useful your executive dashboard, if you don’t have enough cash in the bank to pay suppliers or make payroll,…

Does it often feel like your business is swimming in data? Big data, data visualization, data analysis — it can quickly become overwhelming, especially if you’re measuring a lot. But having the right business process management in place can help you stay afloat. One of our favourite ways to stay…

There are many benefits to having a data warehouse for reporting and analysis, and even more upsides to automating it. If you’re not familiar with the term, a data warehouse is a record of all the data an organization’s business systems collect. It can allow you to analyze data from…

Your business’s IT infrastructure lays the foundation for innovation. Creating a strong IT strategy is even more important for growth, especially as we see new software and technology emerge on what seems like a daily basis. Part of building a solid IT strategy is, of course, budgeting. New technology can…

Your business runs on data — that’s why data collection is key for business success. But once you have that data, how do you communicate it? The options for data communication are so much more robust than ever before. Technology has allowed for new tools and techniques that didn’t exist…

You may have heard this statistic before, but it bears repeating: in a survey of nearly 300 global executives by Bain & Co., only a third felt the strategy it produced met three vital criteria: bold ambition, adaptability in the face of changing market conditions, and concrete guidance for management…