Helping ManageBac consolidate Xero entities to GoogleSheets

by dataSights | Nov 5, 2018 | Google Sheets, Xero

ManageBac helps over 2500 leading international schools to implement and manage the IB curriculum. Theo King is the CEO of ManageBac and asked us to help consolidate their Xero entities which run in multiple countries.   Datasight’s multi-currency consolidation of our...

Helping Dalby General Steel Maximise their invesment in DEAR Inventory

by dataSights | Oct 11, 2018 | DEAR Inventory

Dalby General Steel is run by Nolan Keen and is a one-stop shop for steel needs, building materials, and rural supplies in the Dalby region. Nolan has a second business whose data we also bring into his datalake but more on that in another post! The main reasons for...

Data Drive your XPM Practice – Part 1. Visibility drives behaviour

by dataSights | Sep 16, 2018 | Opinion piece, Practice Ignition, Xero, XPM

Keeping an eye on the prize – visibility drives behaviour Write down your goals. Measure it to manage it. If you don’t believe these statements, scroll right on by, you are NFI. What’s even more important than having your goals written down, and even...

Forget which Business Intelligence tool to use, focus on the outcomes with 5 questions

by dataSights | Aug 29, 2018 | Opinion piece

Here is an actual conversation (condensed) where a client was pretty insistent on using PowerBI without fully understanding what it is but more importantly that another set of solutions would provide far more value and help his business far more effectively. Business...

What divides a room? Timesheets! Here’s a KPI to identify valuable staff and contribute to a healthy EBIT regardless of your timesheet stance

by dataSights | Mar 14, 2018 | Uncategorised

If you are a service based firm, especially with part of your revenue being fixed price/value based, then welcome to my post about Realisation%. In order to help focus a staff member’s performance, there is one major question we can be asking; “Of their...