Vizual Outcomes

“They keep changing their mind about report requirements, they could never use Tableau!”   That may be true, but business users change their minds because they have so many questions and want to get answers.  Now.  What they aren’t good at is translating their questions into a dimensional model.  Why should they be?  There’s a business [...]

Seeing excitement in people’s eyes, watching them high-five each other and practically yell “This is so cool” after looking at data is awesome.   One doctor at Seattle Children’s said, “I learned more in 5 minutes than in the last 5 years.”  I’ve never seen people so excited about data, it is very cool.  I am honored [...]

Making fact-based decisions is a challenge of many organizations.  Business and clinical leaders struggle with getting access to timely, relevant data to empower their decision making.  At Seattle Children’s we struggled with the same challenge.    We had several BI tools, a developing data warehouse and a great team of analysts and developers, but no matter [...]

Many different cooks in the kitchen In my last post I talked about the three main diners in any healthcare organization, the healthcare leaders, the CIO and the Business Intelligence (BI) team.  Pulling all of the pieces together to create an adaptive, learning organization that turns massive amounts of data into actionable evidenced-based decisions is [...]

Today marks the beginning of my full-time focus on Vizual Outcomes.  After four years leading the Knowledge Management team at Seattle Children’s I decided it was time to get back to my services roots. At Children’s I led a team that did exceptional work improving how information is delivered to the organization resulting in improved [...]