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Apr 24, 20233 min read

Leveraging Data To Tell Amazing Stories

We all know the importance of using data to make informed decisions. However, data alone is not enough to solve complex problems. We need...

Apr 24, 20232 min read

Making A Place For Data At The Strategic Table

As technology advances and the world increasingly digitizes, data has become a valuable asset for businesses across industries. Credit...

Apr 24, 20232 min read

Building Data-Centric CU DNA without Gene Editing

As businesses continue to operate in an increasingly data-driven world, organizations must focus on developing a culture that understands...

Apr 24, 20233 min read

Acorns To Watch Out For

Most acorns are benign. They drop from the tree, take root in the ground and begin sprouting another tree. In the credit union world,...

Apr 24, 20232 min read

What Credit Unions Can Learn From Apple's Data Ecosystem

Apple has been disrupting the financial industry with its Apple Card and its high-yield savings account, Apple Cash. But it's not just...

Mar 5, 20232 min read

Member Excellence as Service

Many have heard of SAAS (software as a service), think Zoom and Microsoft 365. But what about formally creating, operationalizing, and...

Mar 5, 20233 min read

Is Your Data Like A Tweener?

Credit unions, while having more data than Amazon, find that it lives in 60 to 100 data systems and is hard to wrangle to get meaningful...

Mar 5, 20232 min read

How To Make Data Your BFF

Data has been called many things, frustrating, insightful, and even transformational. Today, I want us to think about data as a corporate...

Mar 5, 20233 min read

Activate Your Data, Not Your Budget

Gartner's 100 data analytics predictions for 2025 offered this data-driven transformation roadmap. Let us dive into this a bit deeper....

Feb 24, 20232 min read

What is a Data Governance Charter & Why Should I Care?

The mission of a Credit Union data governance program is to give a formal structure to its data. It also manages data access, quality,...

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Actionable Education: Strategic Data Road Map

Road maps are crucial tools in measuring success. A road map is a communication tool of the process to complete a large and complicated...

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Actionable Education: Clarity on Data Maturity & Data Governance

At its simplest, data maturity is the extent to which an organization utilizes the data it produces. One of the ways an organization...

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Actionable Education: Much ado about Member Friction in the MX

Leveraging data to improve members’ lives involves the following: 1) understanding the member’s problems and 2) identifying the data...

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Actionable Education: Assessing Your Credit Union Landscape For Data Activation

For a credit union to leverage its data, it needs to understand its current data landscape, as it is challenging to create a road map...

Jan 23, 20233 min read

For the Love of data: The CU Hug

It is often that when we are busy doing the good work that credit unions do, we forget to stop and take a moment to embrace it. Let's use...

Jan 23, 20232 min read

For the Love of Data Activation

What does Data Activation look like? It is a process that 1) involves connecting data systems to generate insights, 2) transforming the...

Jan 17, 20232 min read

For the Love of Data & The Member

As we head into February, the month of valentine's day, let's give some love to data and how it can impact your members. Here are four...

Jan 17, 20234 min read

For the Love of Data & The Credit Union

The most recent article covered the benefits of data on the member. This article will highlight the benefits organizational data has on...

Jan 16, 20232 min read

Thoughts and Predictions on 2023

Since the pandemic, predicting member behaviors & trends and the economy have been more accurate with a shake of the magic 8 ball. But...

Jan 16, 20233 min read

Two quick ways to leverage data to help accomplish 2023 goals!

It's that time of year (no, not THAT time, that was last month) this is the time of year when the new year is laid out in front of us...

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