The person who finds where your money's going has done this
for over a decade.
I spent over a decade building operations analytics inside complex manufacturing sites, where the numbers ran the business. 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 built analytics processes across more than fifty plants, where a report had to hold up under real decisions made by real people, day after day.
That's where I learned what separates reporting 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 how I build it now.
I put what I learned in a book. I teach it to the next generation of data professionals. And I built this firm to do the work for businesses that need it.
I wrote the book. Then I taught it.
Author. Educator. Practitioner. I've done all three, and I've done the work where the numbers ran the business.
The Data Culture Handbook
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 built operations analytics for businesses of every complexity and technology stack, 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 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 why Great Lakes Analytics exists here.
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Thirty minutes. Tell us what's going on in the business. We'll tell you straight whether a build's worth it, and what it would take.
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