Internal BI Promotion Video from the SAP BI Competency Center
SAP drinks its own champagne! One often-underestimated element required for successful business intelligence projects is strong communication skills. Here’s a great example of a BI competency center (BICC) explaining and promoting BI to the rest of the organization. In this case, it’s SAP’s own BICC that created the video, destined for SAP’s 5,000+ employees worldwide. It was uploaded by Matthias Wild of SAP’s Global IT group... [Read More...]
ITWeb BI Summit BI Competency Center Workshop
Here are the slides from today’s workshop on BI Competency Centers at the ITWeb BI summit in Johannesburg, in PowerPoint and pdf format. Read More →
What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
I was asked this question last week at an internal meeting for the BI teams of a large Nordic telecom company, who had invited me to do a presentation on BI trends. Here’s my answer: “It’s one where that successfully changes the information CULTURE of the organization” Business intelligence is about business and people, not information and technology. Information is useless unless you actually change something in the way your organization... [Read More...]
Real-Life, Strategic BI Within Your Overall IT Strategy
Today’s presentation at the Mastering SAP BusinessObjects conference in Melbourne, Australia is about implementing a BI strategy in your organization. Here’s the abstract: Most organizations know that they should be taking a strategic approach to Business Intelligence. But what does this actually mean, and how do you go about doing it? Using real-life examples of successful strategic BI implementations, we’ll cover key strategic themes... [Read More...]
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. 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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