Budgeting for business can seem a lot more complicated than creating a personal budget, but in reality they are not all that different. When budgeting for business, you are: Projecting your income for a certain time period (a month, a quarter, a year, etc.). Projecting your expenses for a certain…

Running a not-for-profit organization can be very different from leading a business. While the two can share similarities, non-profits often have unique opportunities and challenges that corporate entities just don’t have to face. One of the areas that can be unique for not-for-profits is the budgeting process. Most, if not…

After 30 years of working with TGO Consulting, founding partners George Braun and Orgad Gratch are moving on from the company. The decision follows the acquisition of TGO by SHEA Business Solutions. Braun and Gratch have sold TGO and are moving on to build True Sky, a Corporate Performance Management…

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…