Mastering BusinessObjects Conference, Sydney Australia

The Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference was held in Manly, Sydney this week. The location was stunning – Australia has some of the best beaches in the world, and thanks to Pete Collett, who lent me a surfboard, I was able to catch a few waves at day break before heading back into the waterfront conference hotel to deliver my keynote presentations. The two-day event had a packed agenda, including great keynotes from Dave Rathbun of Integra... [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. Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter with automatic... [Read More...]

BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)

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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...]