Data Health Continued – Narratives and the Dirty Event
Finding the truth in data is messy but the key to the survival of business. What is the cost of a question? The answer is not as simple as you would think. Knowing the correct question is more important than finding the correct answer right? You would hope so but in a narrative-driven exchange,


Decision science. Decision strategy. Decision analytics.
Today, there are many ways to describe decision-making. While these new terms are in-vogue, they typically fail to address the fundamental requirements that enable business leaders to make decisions. In consulting for dozens of companies, I find it extremely rare for data health to be a known commodity. In fact, I often ask business leaders


Make the most of your Data with DSaaS from Tallgrass
Decision Science as a Service Why we abandoned selling technology for a better approach, introducing DSaaS. Decision Science as a Service – Confidence in Action. Decision Science at Tallgrass is distinctly based on Decision (top down) and Science (bottom up). Everything supporting the decision is our priority. Science, though important, only enriches the decision-making process


Master Data Management – Strategy or Technology?
As companies transform many of their core systems we feel it’s important to speak to our experiences with big master data management technologies that make vastclaims, and have giant invoices behind those claims. Being on the services end of these technologies, we quickly gained perspective from both sides; the promises made and the realities associated


Robotic Process Automation, Solution Comparison
At Tallgrass, we are living through the trends of RPA and how CIOs can make the most out of their “bots”. Having decades of experience within complex automation before RPA was even coined we review the top RPA providers to draw a conclusive comparison of the good, bad, and sometimes ugly you will live with


Top Business Intelligence Solutions of 2020
What is the Cost of the Question? What is the Question? TCO or Total Cost of Ownership of answering questions is elusive yet cannot be ignored. When the cost of the question is too high it remains to be asked in the first place. This limits the ability to lead and results in opportunity loss.


Operational Literacy, What is it?
Operational Literacy is the clarity to know which levers to pull to get the desired results by aligning tactical processes with strategic plans. It requires that leaders are provided the information to know which data points are relevant to the situation and that they have access to high-integrity data that will always leave them in


Decision Ready Data, What is Data Health/Bias?
Decision Ready Data, What is Data Health/Bias? There are simple tests to evaluate the health of data. When a decision is made can you measure compliance? If you can then your data’s bias is within the threshold of that decision. But not all decisions are made equally, tactical decisions have a small loop to follow


The Bottom Line on Robotic Automation
What is Robotic Process Automation? Robotic Process Automation (or RPA) is more of a strategy than a single technology. Marketers do a great job of redefining common business objectives as new tangible technology. The value being pitched here is that RPA helps companies significantly reduce their manpower cost by completely automating repeatable processes. There is