Why nobody in the company trusts the numbers
If every department brings its own spreadsheet to the meeting, the problem isn't a lack of training. It's that the systems have never said the same thing twice in a row.
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This is the blog of Contágio, a creative agency in Aveiro. It is not here to announce agency news: it is here to answer, in writing and once and for all, the questions that reach us by phone most weeks. Is a new website worth it, or can we make do with what is there? What does a branding process actually include? Why do the ads spend money and bring in no enquiries?
If every department brings its own spreadsheet to the meeting, the problem isn't a lack of training. It's that the systems have never said the same thing twice in a row.
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The subscription renews itself and nobody asks the question again. There are three simple tests you can run in the first month that save you the migration in year three.
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You don't prepare an entire company for artificial intelligence. You prepare one case, take it all the way through, and learn from it — the second one already costs less.
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The answer is already in your systems. Five questions that show whether it's stored so it can be read — or just filed away.
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The question doesn't get answered with a systems audit. It gets answered by watching an ordinary week and noticing four things.
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One answers well in general. The other knows that particular customer has had an extended deadline since 2019. The difference isn't the model — it's what it can look up.
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For thirty years, systems existed to store things. Once they start suggesting things, some work disappears — and new work turns up that nobody budgeted for.
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A generic platform is cheaper on the invoice and more expensive to run. How to work out, before signing, which side the bill actually falls on.
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Software stopped being bought and started being rented. The bill changes, who handles maintenance changes, and who decides what the tool becomes tomorrow changes too.
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