understanding your data

Is all your data stored across several different systems? Are your users frustrated that they can't easily get the reports and insight that they need?If so, you would benefit from a strategic data review - to understand how to pull all of your data together into a business-aligned single view, and then how to deliver trusted, automated and secure reports & insights to your end-user community

delivering data success

Even when you have a data strategy, it's often difficult to work out the steps to deliver it as a combination of a technical solution and accompanying governance that becomes widely adopted in your business to improve your data culture.We can build the necessary roadmap, business cases, tools selection, project team assembly and programme management to ensure that these are delivered.

becoming self-sufficient

Ever found yourself unnecessarily reliant on your delivery partners? Not us - from the beginning of any engagement, the plan is to actively get 'out of harm's way' once you are no longer dependent on the specific domain knowledge that we bring.We actively work with you to build up the necessary business-as-usual (BAU) teams and processes so that you can not only maintain your data solutions, but also enhance them unaided in the future.

client success story

What started as a simple finance-driven investigation into why students left their university accommodation, ended up becoming a powerful welfare insight tool that could positively impact student life, and even save lives.Although the tangible impact of this attrition was lost revenue, the underlying reasons and causes were varied. In some cases, there were serious welfare issues that only became apparent once the student had ceased their tenancy.So, with the help of predictive analytics and the combination of a wide range of data sources (CRM, contractual, welfare, call-centre data), it was possible to detect those students who were starting to exhibit behaviour which we knew may lead to more serious issues for them, and a lost tenant for the client. The Welfare team, now armed with this insight, are able to proactively offer assistance to these students, even if they hadn't yet perceived the potential issue ahead.

remote or onsite

UK-based but able to work in any time-zone. Cultural experience of working throughout the US, Europe & Asia. Flexible working arrangements to suit availability & budget

strategy / advisory

Able to advise on not only your ideal data / business intelligence strategy, solution & phased roadmap - but also the business cases & benefits statements needed

programme mgmt.

Not only building your data strategy, but helping lead its delivery, including: direct engagement, project team set-up, tools selection & outsource/partner selection.

client success story

After producing a series of KPI's for the APAC division of a large global retailer, an unusual & inconsistent trend became apparent in just one county, China. Despite having a series of successful sales campaigns to drive in-store sales conversion and basket size across all of APAC, the Chinese metrics didn't follow the trend. When a campaign was actively promoted, there wasn't necessarily a favourable response as compared to its APAC neighbours. Conversely, sometimes when the promotions had finished, Chinese shoppers would sometimes return to the stores. It became apparent that something was causing this behaviour, but we didn't currently have the data to uncover it. So began a process of systematically identifying other types of activity that could be tracked through data to finally discover the root cause of this unpredictable retail customer behaviour. Rapid data investigations included social and demographic insight, store location & types - even the weather! All failed to provide any additional understanding.And then, success! One of the many later data sets that were analysed was environmental data including the air quality index (AQI) that measures the level of air pollution. It was here in the AQI data that a direct correlation was found with store visiting activity. During sales promotion periods, if the AQI was high, shoppers weren't as tempted to visit the store. They simply valued their health more than a good deal. Now understood as an impactful data set, environmental / air pollution information is now actively included in both their predictive & reactive retail analysis.

client success story

At POB Enterprises, we often talk about finding the 'digital breadcrumbs' - the multitude of insightful little pieces of data which all of our digital-based devices now generate. When combined with other data sets, this can often generate exciting new opportunities for insight that were never possible before.One of these is our smarter use of energy - specifically when you think about the increase in adoption of smart utility meters in our homes, and the growing popularity of electric cars.We were fortunate enough to workshop this concept with one of the largest global tech companies and how it may impact their own smart/driverless car programme. It became apparent that in the near future, there will be enough 'digital breadcrumbs' for your electric car to charge its battery optimally overnight, based on the anticipated mileage required tomorrow by looking at your online calendar. Based on your planned events, an optimal level of charge could be applied, minimising unnecessary spend.This is just one of many examples of new opportunities being present through the advent of additional channels of data. Instead of seeing this as potentially drowning in new data, it should be embraced as an opportunity to be able to knit together many diverse sources of useful data where its value is exponentially increased when combined together with other data to provide insight analysis of events in time and space.

Build your own Data Strategy

A lot of the consultative professional services offered by POB Enterprises are dependent on direct engagement with a consultant. The Data Bow Tie offering is a new online solution for working with you remotely to build your data/BI strategy - but with cost-effective minimal, remote engagement.

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Remote Part-Time Access to a CDO

If you would benefit from the advice and direction of a _Chief _Data _O_fficer (but can't justify hiring one) then this service is perfect for you. Easy access to remote CDO expertise, on a budget and schedule to suit your requirements. A variety of packages and services covering strategy, technology, governance & management.

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**data & BI consultancy **

Remote or onsite client engagement to maximize value from data within your business. Services include data/BI strategic advisement & programme management

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data-based B2B SaaS solutions

Various cost-effective B2B-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings that provide business value adding solutions to common data-based problems - for all business sizes

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productivity solutions for individuals

A selection of consumer-facing data-driven B2C powerful yet easy-to-use tools, solutions and resources for improving individual productivity, health and well-being.

Direct Clients

We have worked with many direct clients over the years - in either public or private sector, UK or international, onsite or remote.

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'White-Label' Consulting

Many leading consultancies rely on the seamless provision of our data strategy services as part of their offering to their clients.

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Pro-Bono

There are some causes that are very close to our heart, and so we occasionally offer our services for free for charities and worthy causes.

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Derby City Council
(New Revolutionary Social Care & Supported Families Insight Platform)Helping the council become more insight-led through their new leading intelligence platform, by providing assistance in:

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Kirklees Council
(Delivering the Environment & Climate Change Data Strategy)Providing interim business intelligence specialist skills to understand and map the vast and diverse data & insight requirements throughout the ECC directorate. This included tracking the metrics for their 2030 Climate strategy including transport, highways, emissions, environmental tracking, public protection and waste management / recycling. [POB Enterprises were] ...

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__UCAS (Cheltenham & Remote during COVID-19 pandemic)__
At POB Enterprises, we often talk about finding the 'digital breadcrumbs' - the multitude of insightful little pieces of data which all of our digital-based devices now generate. When combined with other data sets, this can often generate exciting new opportunities for insight that were never possible before.[POB Enterprises...]

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__Smart DCC (Data Communications Company) (Manchester & London, UK)__Building the teams, governance and solutions for the insight & analysis of the UK's smart meter roll-out.Role involved introducing new agile Jira methodologies, data & report migration from legacy platforms, automation and improvement of regulatory reporting, developing the internal teams and a BI strategic review to move from on-premise tactical to cloud-based large-scale analytics.Once complete, the UK's smart meter roll-out will require the analysis of thousands of IOT messages per second, from 50+ million smart meters across 30+ million properties throughout the UK.

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__Unite Students (Bristol, UK)__
In less than 1 year, built a Business Intelligence Strategy which transformed into a live BI solution providing insight and enabling data-driven decisions throughout the business. Includes:

[POB Enterprises...] "helped the offshore team understand the domain, functionality and processes to build an enterprise data warehouse from scratch. Their ability to visualise the big picture is truly commendable "

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__SSP Food & Travel Experts (Birmingham, UK)__Managing a team of 20+ developers, solution architects and testers for a global MSBI solution handling over 1m customer transactions every day. Introducing new BI governance and data & solution improvement programmes.[Dave from POB Enterprises was...] "a very thorough BI professional, highly respected among peers and by seniors, with in-depth business acumen and ability to build high performing teams "

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Celgene (Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland & UK)Responsible for international BI projects, including RFP's, supplier management and projects - working between UK and Switzerland based offices & teams. Provided 'caretaker' BI leadership until transitioning to a permanent member of staff.[POB Enterprises were] "able to quickly understand a business need
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Building the Data Practice, and establishing long-term data strategy clientsInterim Data & Insight / Business Intelligence Practice Lead, building the team, governance & client base up over a two year period. Providing programme oversight & leadership on all business intelligence client projects, as well as support for mentoring, pre-sales and marketing.

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Building and delivering the Data Strategy proposition to a growing list of clientsBuilding a Data Strategy delivery approach, wrapped in a go-to-market framework. Delivering impactful data strategies to clients at the start of their long-term roadmaps and relationship. [POB Enterprises are...]

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Ammonite Data
One of several data experts, providing data strategy services to clientsWorking with clients on their strategic data journey, and also developing Ammonite's own Momentum framework, for driving faster growth for SME leaders who demand more from their data.

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esynergy
Lead associate used for senior / strategic data engagementsProviding both pre-sales and post-sales support for client projects, and also helping steer the strategy and governance of the internal data teams and methodologies

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Cancer Central
Pro-Bono Chief Data Officer Advisory ServicesSponsor who provides high-level data architecture, data modelling and CDO advice to this worthy charitable cause. [POB Enterprises were...]

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Inner Diner

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Own Your Own Goals

A lot of our major goals in life (achieve a major project) are often classed as high-important / low-urgency i.e. we never make actively make time to complete them. OWN YOUR OWN GOALS is a solution for actively building the habits, reminders & tasks to achieve these crucial life goals.

customised business instruction manuals

A wide selection of instruction manuals for common business projects. Instead of following generic guidance, simply answer a few questions in order to receive 100% tailored bespoke instructional manual content that is specific to your business. Then simply follow your own instruction manual, step-by-step.

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