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Okko Oulasvirta
Retail & Commerce

Store Performance & Action Hub

Turn the weekly store league table into a short list of specific actions for each store, ranked by what they are worth.

The decision it supports

For this store this week, what are the few actions that would move the number most?

What changes

Area managers coaching on actions rather than reading rankings, and good practice from strong stores made repeatable across the estate.

Data domains

  • Stores and estate
  • Orders and fulfilment
  • Products and range
  • Customers and loyalty
  • Finance and margin

Interactive preview

Store Performance & Action Hub is described here as an opportunity rather than shown as a working demonstration. The interactive build for this industry is Inventory Exception Manager — it uses the same primitives, the same governed data model and the same decision-to-action pattern this application would.

We build one flagship per industry properly rather than four shallow ones. The pattern transfers.

The workflow

  1. 01Sales, footfall, conversion and availability are consolidated by store
  2. 02Each store is compared against its own trend and comparable stores
  3. 03The drivers behind a gap are identified with the evidence
  4. 04Specific actions are proposed and ranked by expected value
  5. 05The area manager assigns actions to stores
  6. 06Progress is tracked and the outcome recorded

Platform capabilities most relevant here

  • OneLake

    One governed copy of enterprise data that analytics, AI and applications can all build on.

  • Curated business entities

    Agree once what an order, an asset or a customer means — then reuse it everywhere.

  • Semantic models

    Keep one agreed version of the business measures behind every number.

  • AI functions

    Apply language models to business data as a normal part of a data pipeline.

  • Fabric Apps

    Build the application where the governed data already lives, instead of copying it out.

  • Application state

    Remember decisions, assignments and approvals — the things a report cannot hold.

  • Workflows and approvals

    Keep accountability visible when a decision needs a second pair of eyes.

Not every application needs every capability. This is the subset that this decision actually depends on.

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