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James Harper
Jul 12, 20202 min
I feel the need, the need for speed
Much has been said about the “new normal” as we adapt our organisations to Post-COVID environment, and what the enduring future will...
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James Harper
Jun 25, 20201 min
Empowering your frontline
25 June 2020 In the recording, I talk through a number of client stories, where providing frontline workers with data and insights in a...
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James Harper
Jun 25, 20202 min
Data is the special sauce during crisis management
So 2020 has been a bit a tackle that came out of nowhere and bowled you over. The impact on business has been huge (I really didn’t want...
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James Harper
May 22, 20203 min
How does the offer of a free burger change the cost-cutting approach of a CFO?
Knowing exactly where we are along the COVID-19 journey is hard to nail down, but the fourth multi-territory PwC COVID Pulse survey has...
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James Harper
May 13, 20202 min
How COVID has made us all data experts
The COVID pandemic has changed our world in ways that most of us would never have believed was possible. Something that has surprised me,...
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James Harper
May 7, 20202 min
Are CFO's as cool as Tom Cruise?
The PWC Pulse Survey is quickly becoming one of my favourite reads at the moment. At the end of last week the latest survey results were...
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James Harper
Apr 28, 20202 min
From gin to hand sanitiser, the magic of the pivot.
Management is a lonely and demanding job at the best of times. Add working in isolation through the biggest health and economic crisis in...
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James Harper
Apr 22, 20203 min
Are you a data catalyst?
Over the past few years, there have been huge sums invested in data and analytics projects by organisations, the investment has only been...
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James Harper
Mar 26, 20204 min
The importance of data during COVID-19
Yesterday was the first day that I saw this new chart on the ABC, prepared from modelling undertaken by the University of Sydney. In my...
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James Harper
Feb 1, 20203 min
Benefits of being small
In consultancy circles there are the big boys - think the top tier Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and EY as well as the mid tier, and then quite a...
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James Harper
Dec 19, 20193 min
Looking back on the top 2019 tech predictions
It's the time of the year, when we see a flood of Nostradamus like predictions start to hit our screens, as the new year looms up on the...
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James Harper
Dec 2, 20197 min
Back to School For Execs - Part 3
Data Source and Quality. The first step in evaluating an analysis or report should be to understand where the underlying data has come...
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James Harper
Oct 24, 20196 min
Back to school for execs, data school that is - Part 2
In Part 1 of this series of articles, we covered the baseline of analytics with the discussion of populations and samples, means and...
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James Harper
Sep 24, 20196 min
Back to school for execs, data school that is - Part 1
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March 2018, the power of data has become more widely understood, yet the understanding of data...
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James Harper
Sep 2, 20192 min
Flow the key to innovation and insights
We have all experienced a moment of flow, in the zone, focussed on the task everything else just falls away. Flow allows us to achieve...
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James Harper
May 29, 20185 min
Grey hair, traffic lights and trust. How they all combine to create profit.
My hair is a little greyer than I would like, but on the upside nowadays people seem to offer me seats on crowded trains! My grey hairs...
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James Harper
May 1, 20187 min
What can Band of Brothers teach us about getting a failing project under control?
The zing of bullets flying through the air, enemy soldiers popping up out of nowhere, a thud and a scream as a soldier falls to the...
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