About

Hi, my name is Tim Bryden.

Effective data strategy to discover unique insights and unlock value in your business can mean the difference between success and failure.

Winning a bid, keeping a client, improving utilization and productivity. All of these require decisions. Strategies to generate insights from good quality data and making them available to the right person at the right time will generate significant value.

I've spent over two decades working in businesses across Finance, Operations, and IT.

I've been in the trenches and I've sat in the big chair with full business and P&L responsibilities. The constants have always been dealing with people, change, technology and data. I'm a data nerd and enjoy creating useful and actionable information from data, empowering people, and embracing change.

My P&L Management and Commercial experience along with an MBA and qualifications in Accounting and Computer Science often see me acting as the bridge between Finance, IT, and Business. When these areas combine effectively the results can amaze everyone.

In my experience, many businesses are only touching the surface when it comes to utilizing core technologies and unlocking the potential from data. They struggle to get the right information in front of the right people at the right time and often don't know what that right information is. Data strategy in many cases is effectively non-existent and the approach to finding actionable insight is often haphazard, random, or simply not happening.

Most high-value data is within easy reach. So much potential exists.

With the right questions, the right tools, and the right approach the likelihood of discovering a game-changing insight or empowering others to do so dramatically increases.  Given my finance background and time Heading up Finance for both large and smaller businesses I'm also a strong advocate for Finance departments having advanced FP&A or XP&A functions, having their own cloud-based data warehouse to support this and to help automate key processes, and generate near-live reporting to support data insight.   This is not just talk.  Through my consulting firm Brydens BI I actively support the Finance and Data teams of a diverse range of listed and large private companies.

This site focuses on widely available tools to manipulate and visualize data and strategies to unlock insight.

Enjoy