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James Harper
May 7, 20202 min read
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 read
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 read
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
Apr 1, 20203 min read
CASE STUDY: NSW Crown Lands
www.reservemanager.crownland.nsw.gov.au Outcomes 38% increase in page views on the site 36% of website traffic from organic search Harper...
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James Harper
Mar 26, 20204 min read
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
Mar 16, 20202 min read
Like a parent picking their favourite child - here is my ThoughtSpot v6.0 favourite feature.
The January release of ThoughtSpot v6.0 is jam packed with a raft of new features. The new version has improvements across the board from...
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James Harper
Feb 1, 20203 min read
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 read
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 read
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
Nov 14, 20195 min read
If you want to look sexy, then think data governance.
Data scientists and analysts have some of the hottest skills in the IT market right now. They are being paid high salaries and are using...
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James Harper
Oct 24, 20196 min read
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
Oct 2, 20193 min read
CASE STUDY - S4B
S4B are an established Engineering Services Consultancy, with offices in Sydney and Canberra. They have delivered some of Australia’s...
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James Harper
Sep 24, 20196 min read
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 read
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
Aug 28, 20196 min read
What do onsite search and wine have in common?
We interact with search every day when we Google something. Google really was a transformational technology for the internet and has set...
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James Harper
Aug 22, 20193 min read
CASE STUDY: Tocal College
www.tocal.nsw.edu.au Outcomes 13% increase in user visits to the site 25% increase in the time spent on the site by visitors Harper Stone...
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James Harper
Sep 17, 20184 min read
Outcomes not hours
I worked on a project a number of years back, that was huge, worth millions of dollars, spanned a number of years and was supposed to...
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James Harper
Aug 8, 20182 min read
Insights - the answer to the question you haven't asked yet.
We are consumers of content, searching for information with an unrelenting appetite for instant satisfaction. Organisations have evolved...
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James Harper
Jun 17, 20183 min read
It ain’t knowledge, if it ain’t relevant
I have an 11 year old son, he is a bright little person. He reads a lot and he reads a real variety of things about science, history, and...
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