Is the juice worth the squeeze?
How much information do you get out of the data you gather?
At larryroof.com, our specialty is helping your company get the most out of the data that flow through your organization. To many, this can easily be misconstrued as "so you write reports." That would be akin to saying that doctors solely help their patients by "writing prescriptions." While in the end, we may in fact write some reports, as in the end doctors may write prescriptions, it is the analysis and understanding of what is going on before all of this occurs that sets larryroof.com apart from the rest.
An example of how we work can be seen in a large food processing company that we recently helped. They were struggling with their operations on a number of fronts, from purchasing and receiving raw materials, to producing and packaging their product, to monitoring their production facilities, controlling their inventories, taking orders, coordinating shipping, and forecasting future needs.
When we were first brought in, we started where we always do, learning the client's business. This is one of our most basic guidelines. If you don't understand someone's business, you can't help them solve their problems. Yet the vast majority of consulting companies completely ignore this fact. All they want is a specification to work against, and nothing more.
After gaining an understanding of the client's operations, we turned our attention to the data that was presently flowing through the client's organization. What we found was alarming. There was an enormous amount of data being gathered, but hardly any viable information being produced. Internally we refer to this as "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" What we mean by this simple question is this: Is all of the effort that you go through to obtain, gather, and store data, worth the amount of information you get in return?
This company was by no means atypical. Almost every one of our clients to some degree struggle with either what data to gather, how to manage the data that they collect, or how to turn their data into beneficial information. In the end, we changed some processes, added some others, optimized the way data flowed through their organization, and yes, even wrote some reports. But now they were meaningful, focused, timely reports.
So ask yourself this about your information systems: Are you getting the most that you can out of your data? You can be certain that with any solution developed by larryroof.com, the juice is going to be worth the squeeze.
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