Data as a Product

The Rise of DataOps Product Teams I recently reviewed an article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) that tapped into something quite central to my recent career experiences doing Digital Data Transformations. For the past few years, I’ve observed two approaches to this work. First one I will call the ‘full press leadership approach’. In … Continued

Business Agility in the Energy and Utilities Industry

Top 5 steps that help Energy and Utilities organizations nurture a culture of Business Agility In our previous blog post, entitled ‘Why business agility is important,’ we outlined the case for business agility for companies operating in the Energy and Utilities space. With a compelling set of rationales for companies to ruminate on, we have … Continued

4 Reasons to Adopt Master Data Management

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. Nate Silver ‘That which can’t be measured can’t be managed’ has a loose corollary: ‘measurements you don’t fully understand won’t allow you to manage fully.’ To leverage data to ask interesting business questions, … Continued

The Importance of Business Agility for Energy & Utility Organizations

As the global enterprise environment continues to be disrupted by major market uncertainty, business agility is now very much a prerequisite to longevity and operational resilience, particularly within the field of Energy and Utilities. The Oxford dictionary defines agility as the ability to move quickly and easily toward a goal or purpose. Business agility, therefore, … Continued

We’re Doing Journey Mapping WRONG

Larry Odebrecht published this article first on LinkedIn here. For the uninitiated, Journey Mapping can be an uncentering experience. It’s often billed as the panacea of collective problem solving and analysis (which it can be) but that’s not its real purpose. The real purpose is a word that makes everyone squirm and struggle. and frankly is discussed … Continued

3 Ways to Leverage Business Intelligence & Address Data Quality Needs

Larry Odebrecht published this article first on LinkedIn here. First, let me acknowledge that this is a perennial problem for most businesses. Upstream data quality issues have taken on the tone of a term a colleague of mine coined: learned helplessness. Time and time again I’ve seen wide-eyed, bright, and bushy youngsters head into Ye Olde Data Mine … Continued

Five ways human error is holding back software development

Andrew Brown, a Principal Consultant at Trissential’s parent company, Expleo, discusses the top five ways that human factors hold back software development. Information technology and software development have delivered enormous benefits to humankind. They have improved living standards for most of us and made many of our lives more enjoyable and rewarding. However, far too … Continued

2022: The year of sustainability for retailers

Extreme conditions can provide fertile ground for game-changing innovation, perspective shifts and process reformulation. This was underlined by the unprecedented display of business resilience amid the protracted global pandemic. But now is not the time for strategic complacency. Yes, the economic landscape is returning to form, but there is a very real and present opportunity. … Continued

Meet Pam DeGrote

Initially, Pam thought she would take a 9-month break from “climbing the corporate ladder” by taking a short contract with Trissential. Twelve years later and still with Trissential, this Senior Business Consulting Manager has never been happier! Meet Pam DeGrote. What makes you excited to start work each day? A combination of the people I … Continued

Trissential Partners with Be the Match

Trissential helped contribute to a record-breaking $1,110,998 raised for patient assistance by sponsoring the Be the Match Gala 2021 on Friday, October 21st. As partners with Be the Match, we helped 6,649 patients receive a second chance at life this past fiscal year. To clarify, that’s 6,649 unique, beautiful individuals given more days with their loved … Continued