Services
I do not sell a dashboard on three definitions. I find where finance, operations, and the field fail to connect — then I put a join, a gate, and a view in place so leaders can predict and still change the outcome.
The work
Owners, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, and the people who own the systems. Same problem, different seat. The work starts where the stories split.
A short diagnostic. Where the number and the work part company. Which definitions are competing. Which records are conversations wearing an ERP badge. You leave with a map of the join — not another pack.
For the owner or CFO who can feel the meeting but cannot name the break.
Identify unstructured data. Document how work actually moves. Build the business as a tree: entity, program, project, cost, activity. Map who creates the record, who owns it, what it must carry, and where it lands in the financials.
For the CIO or COO who is tired of systems that do not share a language.
Exit criteria. Acceptance. Approvals. Thresholds. Exceptions that stay visible without freezing the field. The trail is produced by the work. SOX, COSO, ITGC, SOD, ITIL follow the gate. They are not a parallel project.
For finance and control leaders who will not assemble evidence after close.
Connect the operating events to plan, actual, and forecast. One clock for time, cost, and quality. Two heights from the same facts: a pulse for leaders, a day for teams. Automation and AI only after the input can be trusted.
For the leadership team that wants to predict the miss while the outcome can still change.
How it runs
One entity. One clock. One place the definitions split. Prove the join before anyone asks for a platform.
I sit with finance and operations together. The number has to survive both rooms or it is not the number.
A tree. A gate. A view. Not a binder that dies when I leave, and not a tool that inherits the argument.
What this is not
If the definitions are split, the tool will automate the fight.
Another dashboard on unjoined data is still last month.
A narrative model is only useful after the input is a fact.
Start
That is enough. We will know in the first conversation whether this is a join problem — or a request for another pack.
Email
michaelashanahan@outlook.com
Phone
+1 519-981-6332