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Data Systems & Performance
Insights on dashboards, analytics systems, database structure and technical performance.
Learn how data systems, reporting, database design and performance optimisation support better decisions and stronger digital products.
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Data Strategy
How to Build a Data Strategy for Better Decisions
Most data strategies are tools shopping lists with a vision slide on top. A real one starts from the decisions the organisation wants to make better, names what the data would have to be to support them, and works back to systems and capabilities.
Dashboards & BI
Executive Dashboards vs Operational Dashboards
Same name, two different artefacts. Executive dashboards answer 'is the business on track'. Operational dashboards answer 'what should I do today'. Different audiences, different cadences, different shapes. Trying to design a single view for both is how each fails.
How to Design Useful Dashboards
Most dashboards are read once, mentioned in a stand-up the week after, then ignored. The reason is rarely the BI tool. It is the design discipline: too many metrics, no clear decision, no comparison, no freshness signal, no owner.
What a Good BI Setup Looks Like
The dashboard is the visible part. The BI setup is the iceberg underneath: warehouse, semantic layer, metrics catalogue, refresh discipline, naming, access, ownership. Most 'the dashboard is wrong' complaints are really 'the BI setup is wrong' complaints.
Why Dashboards Fail to Support Real Decision-Making
Dashboards still fail when the rules are followed and the typology is respected. They answer questions nobody is asking, compare against the wrong thing, surface problems with no path to action, get owned by everyone and therefore by no one. The recurring failure modes.
Database Architecture
Database Design Mistakes in Growing Digital Products
Most database pain comes from a handful of schema decisions made early and casually. Each one looked harmless at ten thousand rows. None of them are harmless at ten million. A working catalogue of the recurring schema-design mistakes.
Signs Your Database Architecture Needs Improvement
Most database problems do not announce themselves. They appear as application slowness blamed on the framework, scary deploys, missing reports, rising bills. A working catalogue of the symptoms and what each one usually means.
Technical Performance
How Website Performance Affects Business Results
Website performance is what users do when a page lags. How perceived speed, mobile reality and silent trust erosion compound into business outcomes the dashboard misses.
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