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The quickest way to lose a self-service analytics programme is a bill nobody saw coming. In my last post I covered chargeback: working out, after the fact, which team spent what. That answers "whose cost is this?" It doesn't answer the question Finan...

Imagine asking a colleague two questions on the same morning. The first: "What was our travel spend last month?" They open a report, read off a number, and you're done in a minute. That's a lookup. The second: "Why is our travel spend so much higher ...

Every IT function I've worked with eventually asks the same question, and can never answer it cleanly and clearly: "What did each team actually cost us last month?"When speaking with the platform team at a large UK bank, the realisation was that the ...

When rolling Genie out to a UK enterprise Finance department, one of the questions was  "will a cost-centre owner accidentally see another team's numbers?" In Finance, one leaked row is a bigger problem than a slightly clumsy chart. The good news: yo...

The hardest part of our Genie rollout wasn't building the room. It was 9am the next morning — when people still opened Excel. We rolled out a Genie Space to a UK enterprise Finance function (heavy excel users). The room was scoped well and the answer...