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Insights on data engineering, governance, and building data-driven organizations.
The Supply-Demand Matrix: How to Position Your Data Team for Maximum Impact
It's shocking how few consultants and data leaders properly analyze supply and demand for their services. Demand alone tells you nothing — the balance determines everything.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-03-20
Unlocking ROI from Your Data Stack
Most companies are sitting on a gold mine of data but struggling to turn it into measurable business value. Here's how to change that.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-03-15
Why Your Data ROI Is Under Scrutiny (And What to Do About It)
With the unwinding of decades of zero-interest funding, the ROI of data departments across industries is under heavy scrutiny. Here's how to move beyond dashboards to real business value.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-03-10
Linear vs Exponential: How to Bet on the Right Technologies
Some technologies evolve predictably. Others rewrite everything. The distinction determines whether your experience works for you or against you.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-03-01
The Future of Data Governance is Automated
Manual data governance processes are a ticking time bomb for growing organizations. Here's how automation changes the game.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-02-28
Why Your Data Recommendation Didn't Land (And How to Fix It)
You can be prepared, practiced, and genuinely knowledgeable, and still lose a room — not because your material was bad, but because you made the audience work too hard to extract what matters.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-02-20
How to Speak the CFO's Language: Translating Data Work into Business Value
A finding can be rigorous, correct, and unusable — because what counts as evidence, what signals competence, and what feels safe to act on are all audience-specific.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-02-10
The Four Modes of Communication Every Data Professional Should Master
Most people approach every conversation the same way. They prepare their content, rehearse their points, and walk in ready to deliver. What they rarely ask is: what is this conversation actually for?
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-01-30
Unlocking ROI in Data: Moving Beyond BI with Streamlit and Kubernetes
How Narona Data partnered with a rapidly growing U.S. healthcare scaleup to develop a cost-effective, scalable internal data application platform that extended beyond the capabilities of their existing BI system.
Tony Zeljkovic
2025-05-22