Data Is My Parachute

Two of my passions in life are data and skydiving. One is work related and the other is my hobby but both share common characteristics. Both require a tool for me to be successful. In skydiving it is my parachute and at work it is data. My parachute allows me to control my fall rate, steer to my landing area and land softly whereas data allows me to gain knowledge of an organization, provide information and insight to help guide the organization and allows for monitoring all aspects of the organization to guide it towards its goals.

As I rely on my parachute in skydiving, I rely on data at work. To run a business without relying on or monitoring data would be like jumping without a parachute. The organization would be proceeding with no guidance. Without analyzing and data, the organization is missing valuable information that will help in the decision making process on how to guide the organization towards its targets.

In skydiving there is a reserve parachute, and in an organizations data can work as a reserve parachute. When an organization has controls in place, like a main parachute in skydiving, and the controls fail the data can be used to lessen the impact. The data will show how, why and when the controls failed and can be used to guide the organization until the main controls are repaired. Skydiving has taught me to always have a reserve I can trust and I take this lesson into all the organizations I work with.

Having a parachute for your organizations in the form of a well structure data environment will allow you to successfully guide your organization in the direction you want and lessen the impact on your business if controls fail.

Like parachutes, data is not a one size fits all. Please contact me to discuss how we can use your data to provide you a parachute for your organization.