Information + human context.

Information + human context.

Michael Thompson helps organizations use their data to achieve financial and operational breakthroughs. 

Is your organization still struggling with answering simple business and compliance questions?

  • Executives and managers don’t trust your information? 

  • Spending too much time and money getting information - and not enough using it?

  • Not getting the answers, insights, and value you want or need out of your information? 

Engineering, architecture, and data science alone won’t solve these problems.

It’s likely your organization is missing these additional and critical solutions that are constantly overlooked:

  • Business and functional leaders who know how to be accountable for their data - not blaming technology;

  • Governance that makes sure high quality data is safely and securely used;

  • A culture of literacy and knowledge sharing that makes governance easier, without having to rely on strict and innovation-killing bureaucracy.

Organizations that fail to recognize and invest in these solutions are likely to fall behind on their efficiency, innovation, compliance, and ultimately - survival.

But it’s easy to start turning that around. Within 2-4 months, you could start showing progress on real change.

    • Defining what you want to do, but can’t.

    • Rapid assessment of your data ownership, governance, and culture

    • Sharing perspectives on how others have achieved what you want.

    • Organize potential solutions by impact, cost, resource

    • Define projects and assemble initiatives

    • Organize and recruit stakeholders

    • Present and charter your plan

  • Run workshops and sprints to design pilots:

    • Role secondments

    • Workflow and policies

    • Low or no-code tech enablers - pipelines, transformation, orchestration, presentation

    • Dashboards, reports, or rapid AI POCs

    • Business requirements and impact assessments

    • Formal business case and ROI presentations

    • Program and change management setup and launch

With over three decades’ experience with solutions to these problems, Michael is a seasoned organizer of talented professionals into engagements that deliver quality information solutions. His experience includes leading professional engagements that: 

  • Designed and implemented controls, automation, roles, and culture that delivers more reliable, understandable data

  • Organizing structured and unstructured information to aid reference and decisions

  • Translating business objectives and audience requirements into data and software requirements

  • Helping executives use perspectives and discoveries from information to achieve major changes in their culture and process

  • Designing change management and cultural transformation to make it easier to trust, use, and improve their data

Michael has helped clients:

  • Become more efficient, confident users of data for reporting and analytics, redirecting 10-15% of time away from wasteful reconciliation and formatting of data

  • Make sharper, better informed decisions that can result in 1-2% reductions in OPEX, CAPEX, or balance sheet burden

  • Create a deeper, more trustworthy connection with their audience or customers

 For example, Michael has helped:

  • A global real estate firm define and launch AI-enhanced analytical products and services for its customers and account teams

  • A premiere global bank improve how and where it operates by creating more reliable, understandable location and workforce information

  • A premiere investment bank reduce the reliance on manual data solutions between front, middle, and back office trading and accounting systems

  • A global technology and retail company reduce reconciliation of data between source systems, and establish global data reporting and warehousing