Track your own organisation
Increase profitability: Seeing your organisation’s strategy brought to life through data can help to fine-tune it: spot quick-win inefficiencies and profit opportunities simply by seeing the whole puzzle
Strategic insight: Get help translating your strategy into data that yields decision-making insights, and evolve your strategy in a continual feedback loop. Kickstart action towards your goals by making results visible across teams and embed them in daily activities
Automate: Save time and ensure consistency of reporting with an automated dashboard, so your team can better use their time acting on the results
Real-time: Check your numbers instantly to have your finger on the pulse of your business – don’t miss a beat
Empower decision-makers: Give your leadership team the tools they need to make actionable data-led decisions. Each person / department can filter to see their own results as well as the top-level. Help to break down business silos by showing everyone their piece in the overall puzzle.
Holistic tracking: See a connected view of your organisation in action. Strategy is no longer just about profit – tracking and understanding links between human, operational, and environmental aspects can determine the health of a business too.
OR: Supply data interactively to your clients
Upgrade your offering
Your client likely doesn’t get much from trawling through spreadsheets of your data…bring your data to life! Enable your clients to discover insights through visuals that are easy to understand & enticing to navigate
Explorable & Simple
Users can filter and ‘toggle’ to view the data of most relevance to them: insights are more memorable if they are self-discovered. Communicate the story simply, to engage a wider audience.
Automated
Save time and ensure consistency with automation of the results you present, so your team can better use their analysis time in advising clients on what the insights mean
Survey design
Get help structuring surveys for effective data outputs. Blend outputs from surveys in different languages or time periods.
About AHeadForFigures
I bring over a decade of experience in applying data to strategy for clients across sectors and business verticals. I’ve likely already handled data similar to yours so can bring ideas, but still appreciate that every business is different. I offer these skills on-demand as a freelancer offering personalised support on a dayrate.
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Technical Skills
I make use of a Masters in Maths (Imperial College London – First) to structure my thinking and dashboards logically, and have experience in the coding needed for data transformation and statistical scripting languages. However, all discussions will be jargon-free 🙂
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Strategy / Commercial
Qualified in Executive Strategy (Saïd Business School, Oxford University – Distinction), covering strategic leadership in networks, scenario planning, goals inc. ESG, and benefits of open strategy. I cut my teeth in investment financing, analysing a variety of business models and KPIs / ratios. I’ve been commended for a business-value focused approach.
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Eye for design
Easily-interpretable dashboards involve a clear visual hierarchy and navigation, and selection of visuals best-suited for the insight. I have an eye for design and the incisiveness needed to simplify the complex, to reach as wide a dashboard audience as possible.
What to expect
Your organisation will be set up with a live dashboard visualising your data, and together we will ensure it shows insights relevant to the context of your organisation and industry. A typical project looks like this:
Initial Discussion & Quote: I’ll need to know from you:
- What types of decisions will you/your clients want to be able to make from the data? (impacts design choices)
- What your data looks like (affects the data processing)
I’ll then supply a quote of cost & time. I will treat your data with care (happy to sign NDAs), and check for potential conflicts of interest.
Dashboard draft build: This could be to your spec if you already know the visuals that best represent your data, OR I can design from scratch for your context and propose suitable KPIs / visuals
Feedback: I encourage clients to get hands-on in trying out the dashboard, to ensure it’s intuitive, clear and above all, useful to you!
Final dashboard for handover: We work towards a final version that you’re happy to take ownership of. It’s then up to you to distribute (with guidance), so that you have control over sharing permissions, and since you own the underlying dataset
Aftercare & Testimonial: I’m motivated to ensure you’re happy with my work and it brings you value – please leave a testimonial on LinkedIn 🙂 The dashboard will have a future-proofed setup, but may still need adjustments as your organisation changes shape
Client Reviews
★★★★★
Elizabeth comes highly recommended. Her data visualisation skills are excellent. She is organised, ordered and her thinking is clear and points are well made. She is a great asset in any data visualisation project.
Tim Nightingale
Founding Director
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Lizzie’s work for us has always been exemplary. She’s not just a PowerBI person, she also brings insight and understanding which positively contributes to the challenges we’re trying to tackle. I would highly recommend her work and we will continue to use her unique skills in the future.
Gary Colleran
CEO, Founder
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I had the pleasure of working with Elizabeth when she created our first visualisation dashboards using PowerBI. We presented a fairly rough vision to Elizabeth and she just ran with it. She worked with our analysts and IT teams to produce something we were all very happy with, including our clients. Delighted with the overall experience.
Simon Bryant
VP
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