Welcome to Effective MI Consulting

We are an international Management Information and Business Intelligence consultancy based in Edinburgh & London, UK.

We provide a wide spectrum of Business Intelligence services to help organisations gain a deeper understanding of their key business drivers, and deliver the analytics required to realise their strategic goals.

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Uncover Your Key Business Drivers

Today’s business world is awash with data, much of it hard to obtain and complex to interpret.

We use the latest software and advanced analytical techniques to provide in-depth business insights. From streamlined data processes to high impact executive dashboards, Effective MI can transform your Management Information reporting.

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Reach Your Potential

Once you have an effective Business Intelligence infrastructure in your organisation, you’ll never look back.

With concise dashboards in the hands of senior management, decisions are more informed, risk is more easily managed and you’ll truly understand your organisation’s performance and efficiency.

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Our Solutions

Data Rationalisation & Automation

From the outset we help organisations understand, standardise and automate their data. We build centralised data warehouses & data cleansing processes.

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System Selection & Implementation

We help define the appropriate BI solution for you data, goals and budget. We're fluent in all of the top software packages including Cognos, Tableau and Qlikview.

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Dashboard Design

We build beautiful dashboards that can be interpreted by all levels of management. We use KPIs, trend analysis and SLAs to build balanced business insights.

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BI Outsourcing

Producing regular BI need not be time consuming. Our outsourcing provides cost effective solutions for off site production of dashboards.

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BI & Excel Training

We provide short training courses in BI software and Microsoft Office to help you maintain the skill required for ongoing MI reporting.

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BI Forum Facilitation

We can help make sure your MI is used effectively. We can provide structure and facilitation services for your MI meetings & forums.

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22
Jan

MI Fundamentals – Key criteria for effective business analytics

MI, or ‘Management Information’, is a business term that is often misused and misunderstood. You’ll often hear software suppliers talk about the MI or reporting functionality of their product; when they really mean that you can simply send data somewhere other than a printer, such as Excel. Managers can confuse powerpoint presentations with MI,  where [...]

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29
Sep

Free MI appraisals throughout October

We’ve just announced a special introductory offer for a free appraisal of your existing MI processes, systems and reports. The offer runs until the end of October, so why not get in touch and see how you can tell the story behind your data.

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26
Sep

Case Study – Marketing MI – Financial Services

Our client, the Marketing division of a leading pensions and investments provider based in Edinburgh, required a suite of Dashboards to summarise the operational performance of their marketing division. Although the area already had externally facing analytics on the performance and ROI of their campaigns, they lacked the ability to track the efficiency and effectiveness [...]

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