How Hungry Lion business analysts upskilled to data science

proficiency in less than 6 months

Jonathan Symonds
Head of Business Intelligence
Our Stores
Our Stores
Our Product
Our Journey
Where We Started
❏ Decentralised data supplied by various service providers.
❏ Checklists completed on clipboards.
❏ No BI Tools where in place.
❏ Reporting was almost exclusively Excel based.

Our Objective
❏ Creating actionable exceptions data for our Operations Teams based
on Data provided from various sources.
❏ Host the Data in our BI tool - Looker Studio.
❏ Consistency across reporting.
❏ Managing By Exception.
❏ Ensure that the data feed is consistent and updated on a daily basis.
❏ Manage more stores with fewer resources.
❏ Double our Stores count every 3 years.

Our New Reality

❏ All teams read reports customised for relevance to their department.
❏ Digitisation at scale.
❏ Reports are updated Daily and in some cases up to every hour.
In The Beginning

❏ Reporting was limited and decentralised.

❏ Limited data consumption.
❏ Relied heavily on external parties for reporting.
❏ All data was in Tables.
❏ Needed to adopt BI Tool.
❏ Limited knowledge of Data Management.
❏ KNIME was recommended.
❏ Ease of use made adopting the tool easy.
❏ Online resources are extensive.
❏ Exploring Big Data.
❏ The move to the Cloud.
❏ Data Pipelines built in house.
❏ Room to grow.
The Dream Team
Enlightenment

❏ KNIME Server Adoption.

❏ Expansion of the team.
❏ Less than 2 months to make an impact & 6 to be proficient.
❏ Broadening our skill set & saving time & Money.
❏ All teams get BI Access.
❏ Able to quickly Iterate and Test concepts.
❏ Consistent reports leads to high adoption rates.
 Enlightenment continued...

❏ Managing by exception.
❏ Automation of data feeds.
❏ Impact of Knime.
Where we are now.
❏ Reports tailored to each team.
❏ Digital checklists and validated data.
❏ Higher levels of data accuracy. We are now Printerless.
Speed is critical

Temperature Logging PoC’s

❏ How do we process validated temperature readings?
❏ Deciding on which service providers make sense to
partner with.
❏ Testing now takes months not years leading to quicker
decision making.
Thanks For Your Time - Q&A