We’re excited to announce the launch of our Empowered Community – the online collaboration platform for Empower Architects.

<p>Our latest research into the future of the finance function has shown that 52% of millennial finance professionals think advanced analytics offers a transformational opportunity for the finance team.</p>

Metapraxis MD Simon Bittlestone on what the WPP story can tell us about effective global management, and how analytics can drive sustainable growth

In the latest post in this series, Andrew Mosely looks at how better forecasting can help business leaders cope with market uncertainty

The second post in this series: Xavier Fernandes looks at how different data transformations can help companies face market uncertainty with greater confidence

Rachel Russell explores how reporting can be reinvented,  to more effectively promote and maintain business performance.

Rachel Russell writes on the recent Gartner BI and Analytics Summit, and how efficient data governance can facilitate effective analytics

Nicola Pastore reports from this week's Gartner BI and Analytics Summit, on how analysis can focus more on tangible business outcomes

Andrew Mosely looks at how business leaders can build a proactive approach to coping with market uncertainty

Nicola Pastore looks at recent developments in the use of Data Visualisation by FP&A teams.

Xavier Fernandes looks at recent data from the UK retail industry, and at how profitability analysis can help make the most of seasonal variations in demand.

Following media discussion around the idea of a 'sugar tax' in the UK, Rachel Russell looks at how innovation can be managed in response to regulatory risk

As UK lenders grant more mortgages for longer than the usual 25 years, Andrew Mosely looks at how risk analysis can evolve to keep pace

Nicola Pastore looks at the aftermath of the festive season for the UK's retailers, and the need for better demand forecasting in the industry

Xavier Fernandes explores how business leaders at large organisations can build a framework for generating effective performance predictions.

<em>Simon Bittlestone, Managing Director, writes on markets and economics</em> Simon Bittlestone looks at how predictive analytics can be used to gain insight on the progress of industry trends and disruption

Having defined and explained the fundamental dimensions of MI, we can develop a chart chooser for each of the seven categories.

Here is a good example of a mis-scaled bar chart – it is from a recent Raconteur infographic called “Top 10 trusted countries for outsourcing legal work”.

We can’t use an MAT for a stock type item (like Accounts Receivable or Headcount) or a statistic (such as GrossMargin % or the £/$ Exchange Rate) because totalling these items over time periods doesn’t make any sense.

The supplement in today’s Times newspaper published by Raconteur contains a large centre spread infographic entitled “How UK compares to European rivals”.

This article contains a simple 10 point checklist that we give Metapraxis analysts to use when they create an executive dashboard.

A colleague has drawn my attention to this infographic in today’s City AM concerning the cost and value of communications services in the UK.

Infographics are generally designed to do a different job from the visualization of MI in business - their primary purpose is to engage or entertain through design-focused visuals rather than to provide actionable insight.  That said, visualization and infographics are on a continuum.