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  <description><![CDATA[Quantum Lattice is an Edinburgh-based quantitative consultancy helping leadership teams make better decisions through rigorous analysis and bespoke modelling.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[On the Limits of the Single-Point Forecast]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most organisational forecasts are presented as a number. A revenue target, a headcount projection, a delivery date. The number implies a precision that the underlying analysis rarely supports. This is not a technical failure. It is a communication habit, and it is worth examining.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What We Learned from a Difficult NHS Engagement]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The patient flow modelling project we completed with a regional NHS trust in 2019 took longer than planned and taught us more than any engagement before or since. The data was messier than expected. The stakeholder landscape was more complex. And the stakes were more visible than anything we had worked on in financial services.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why We Cap Engagements at Four]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When we moved to a permanent office in 2019, there was a period of about six months when we were running six active engagements simultaneously. The work was not worse, exactly. But it was thinner. We noticed it before the clients did, which is the only reason we caught it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-02</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Problem Framing Matters More Than the Model]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a version of quantitative consulting that begins with the data. You receive a file, you build a model, you deliver a report. It is a coherent service. It is also, in our experience, frequently the wrong one. The most consequential work we do at Quantum Lattice happens before a single number is touched, in the sessions where we try to establish what question is actually being asked.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Probabilistic Forecasting: Why Ranges Beat Single Numbers]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every forecast is, at its core, a probability distribution. The question is whether you show the distribution or collapse it into a single number before presenting it. Most organisations choose the single number, for understandable reasons: it is easier to communicate, easier to hold someone accountable to, and easier to put in a slide. It is also, in most cases, a less honest representation of what the analysis actually shows.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When to Commission a Data Audit (and What to Expect)]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The most common trigger for a data audit is a specific incident: a report that produced a number nobody believed, a model that gave contradictory outputs on different days, a board question that nobody could answer with confidence. These incidents are useful. They create the organisational will to look carefully at something that is easy to defer. But they are rarely the root cause. They are symptoms.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Cognitive Biases That Most Affect Organisational Decisions]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most leadership teams are aware that cognitive biases exist. Fewer have a working method for counteracting them in practice. Awareness, it turns out, is not a reliable corrective. Research on debiasing consistently shows that knowing about a bias does not reliably reduce its effect on your own judgments. What does help is structural: process design that makes the bias harder to act on.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-03</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Building Quantitative Models Your Team Can Actually Maintain]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a version of quantitative consulting that produces a model so complex, so dependent on the consultant's institutional knowledge, that the client cannot use it without calling the consultant back. This is a business model. It is not a good one for the client. Every model we build at Quantum Lattice is designed from the start to be maintained by your team after we leave.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-20</pubDate>
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