Budgeting Is Hard Budgeting is the challenging nexus connecting what you WANT to do, what you SHOULD do, and what you CAN do. The first step toward success in budgeting involves understanding and aligning the roles each of these points play in your life. What you want to do reflects your values. What you should […]

Ahan Analytics, LLC helps to unlock the data capabilities of non-profit organizations. So, I took great interest in a recent research paper published in Big Data & Society titled “Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods.” Authors Anthony McCosker, Xiaofang Yao, Kath Albury, Alexia Maddox, Jane Farmer, and Julia Stoyanovich provided a data-driven […]

Tom Davenport discusses his new book “Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions Better Results” in Information Week. Davenport and his co-author, Jeanne Harris, wrote this follow-up to: Provide a guide for creating and promoting analytical capabilities without making analytics a core business strategy. Emphasize the importance of data governance. Introduce a formal framework called the DELTA […]