The person who'll find where your money's going has done this
for over a decade.
Specializing in operations analytics in complex manufacturing sites, I learned what good reporting takes by building it where it counted. Then I built a firm to do it for businesses like yours.
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I learned what good reporting takes from the inside, not above it.
For over a decade, much of it in manufacturing, the job kept coming back to one thing: getting reporting to actually work for the people running the operations. I established analytic processes in multiple businesses in over fifty plants, where a reports had to hold up under real decisions made by real people, day after day.
That's where I learned what separates reporting that people rely on from reporting that gets abandoned. It's rarely the technology. It's whether the data was validated and whether the report was built around the decisions people actually make. I learned what good reporting takes by building it where it counted, and that's exactly how I build it now.
So, I documented my learnings in my book, I teach it to the next generation of data professionals, and I built the firm to help others achieve the same levels of success I've built for others.
I wrote the book. Then I taught it.
Most BI consultants have never walked a production floor. Fewer have stood in front of a classroom. Almost none have written the book.
I've done all three.
No one else can say that.
The Data Culture Handbook
I know this work deeply enough to have written the book on it: how organizations come to trust and use their data, and the practical steps to get there.
Graduate-level instructor
I teach these concepts to the next generation of data professionals at Elmhurst University and Southern New Hampshire University.
Over a decade & 50+ plants
I've successfully built operations analytics for businesses of different complexities and technology stacks across the globe.
I built this firm here, on purpose.
Rolling Prairie, Indiana is home. I live in the region I work in, which means when a manufacturer in South Bend, Elkhart, La Porte, Niles, or Benton Harbor calls, I'm not flying in from somewhere. I'm down the road. The work goes faster when I can drop by, and the relationships go further when I actually know the place.
This region builds real things. The manufacturers across Michiana and the Great Lakes run serious operations, and they deserve reporting built to the same standard, by someone who lives where they work. That's the whole reason Great Lakes Analytics exists here, and why I'm building it to be the firm this region turns to.
Let's figure out if we can actually help.
Not every business needs what we do. Book a 30-minute call, tell us where you're deciding blind, and we'll give you a straight answer on whether a build makes sense.
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