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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 19, 2025 11:22:10 AM3 min read

Governance for Humans: How to Build a Framework People Actually Follow

The Gift of Turning Chaos Into Governance Governance gets a bad reputation — and ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 17, 2025 4:08:51 PM3 min read

How to Escape “Spreadsheet Culture” Forever

The Gift of Reporting That Doesn’t Eat Your Life If you’re exporting CSVs at 7pm to ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 17, 2025 4:08:12 PM3 min read

Data Literacy: The Secret Weapon Your Bank Actually Needs

The Gift of Fixing Data Culture Here’s a hot take: Most frontline teams don’t hate data. ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 17, 2025 4:05:57 PM3 min read

How to Turn Core Data Into Revenue: The 30-Day Roadmap

The Gift of Turning Data Into Revenue Big banks aren’t beating you because they’re ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 17, 2025 11:40:13 AM3 min read

The 10 Data Decisions That Make or Break M&A Success

The Gift of Making Mergers Less Messy Nothing exposes data chaos like a merger. Member ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 15, 2025 5:24:17 PM3 min read

Why You Can't Improve What You Can’t Benchmark — Lodestar’s Data Maturity Model Explained

The Gift of Knowing What Good Looks Like Most financial institutions talk about being ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 15, 2025 5:23:03 PM3 min read

The 7 Data Mistakes That Blow Up Core Conversions (And How to Prevent Every One)

The Gift of Avoiding a Core Conversion Nightmare
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 11, 2025 2:08:06 PM2 min read

The 9 High-ROI Analytics Use Cases Every FI Should Run (But 80% Don’t)

The Gift of Duping Smart Ideas There’s a myth in the financial industry that real ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 11, 2025 10:25:33 AM2 min read

What Makes a Data Model Unbreakable? (Hint: It’s Not the Code.)

The Gift of Data Models That Don’t Break If you’ve ever built a “perfect” dashboard — you ...
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Lodestar TechnologiesDec 10, 2025 3:45:10 PM3 min read

If Everyone Owns the Data, No One Owns the Data

The Gift of Saying “No” to Bad Data Most financial institutions think their data problems ...
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