Businesses of all sizes use data to inform their decision making and improve operations. For smaller businesses, you might think that you don’t have data to use. However, most businesses use software systems that store data. This data can be adapted for gaining insights into your business. Today, I’m going to share some common data …
One of the first things new employees often get taught when they join a professional services company is how to create their timesheet. This is usually not a simple “I worked 8 hours on Monday.” Instead, it’s a detailed accounting of how much time was spent on each task of each project. In many firms, …
I signed up for OpenAI’s ChatGPT in early December 2022, soon after it was publicly released. At first, I didn’t realize its capabilities and treated it like SmarterChild (if you know, you know) or Alexa, trying to have very basic conversations that it didn’t respond to all that well. A week or two later, I was …
Think about these decisions that you may have made yesterday and how you arrived at them: It’s possible you made these decisions based on instinct or habit. You always leave for work at 8:05 AM, so that’s when you left, even though the buses were delayed. It’s April, so you took a jacket just in …
In January 2023, there were 420,987 business applications in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau (1). I am pleased to say that Altman Data Innovations, LLC is among that cohort. As the owner of a new business, I spend a lot of time thinking about everything from business strategy to marketing to …
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