Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency
We’re clearly entering a new era in government transparency, and we can hope that allowing citizens to access information interactively through business intelligence functionality to spot inefficiencies and opportunities will be a big part of transforming the way the public sector works. In my previous post, I talked about how the American Recovery and Reinvestment act is perhaps the largest, most complex business intelligence application ever.... [Read More...]
BI Competency Centers, Australia
This session was presented at the Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney. It covers: Why have a BI Competency Center BICC Organization and Staffing BICC Functional areas and Key Tasks Creating a BICC Overcoming Common BICC Issues BICC Examples The slides are available in pdf format (2.2Mb) and ppt format (4.6Mb) and are posted on SlideShare and Scribd. Read More →
BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)
Fixing the BI Tragedy of the Commons
Cindi Howson talks about the “BI Tragedy of the Commons” in her latest Intelligent Enterprise post. The “tragedy of the commons” is a well-known issue in economics, involving a conflict between what’s good for the individual and what’s good for a group as a whole. Cindi uses it to describe the problem of departmental BI silos when it would make more sense to use a more enterprise-wide approach. One... [Read More...]
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