Industries
Each page opens with questions people in that sector actually ask. If you recognise yours, read on. If you do not, this is probably not the right fit — and it is better to know that at the start than after a contract.
Banking and financial services
A bank has dozens of operational systems and thousands of tables, and still answers a manager's question out of a queue rather than out of the data. This is what changes when the queue is removed, and what it will not fix.
Why have non-performing loans grown across this region's branches over the last six months?
InsuranceInsurance
At company level the portfolio looks profitable. That number is an average of profitable and loss-making lines, good and bad agents, efficient and inefficient branches — and the average is what hides the leak. This page is about closing that gap.
Where are we losing money, and why?
Steel and miningSteel and mining
An integrated works generates millions of records per shift, and the questions worth asking cross the areas that hold them. Reduction, steelmaking, casting and rolling sit in separate systems, so the valuable question is the one nobody asks.
Why has metallic yield from melt to coil fallen in the second half of the year?