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Anil Thapa

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Data in the business

Executive partnership, strategy, and the difference between reporting on decisions and being present while they are made.

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Data in the business

Four habits of a self-service analyst

Self-service analytics was sold as an access problem for twenty years. The missing half was never the seat. It was four habits nobody teaches, none of them technical, and they belong to anyone who has been handed a tool and a question.

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Data in the business

Data-driven is a discipline, not a destination

A working definition of data-driven, questions to test it in a meeting, and a discussion framework for connecting decision habits, strategy, and tools.

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Data in the business

What BI means, revisited

I defined business intelligence in 2021, revisited it in 2024, and I’m revisiting it again. What changed, what didn’t, and which of my own definitions aged worst.

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Data in the business

How to build actionable dashboards

Most dashboards get built, launched, and ignored. Treating that as the default outcome rather than a failure case changes what you build, and what you decide not to.

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