Category: Best practice
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BI Implementations Must be Risk-Adjusted
It makes absolutely no sense to try to optimize performance without taking into account risk. Technology vendors are helping by tightly integrating business intelligence and performance management with governance, risk and compliance.
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Branding Your BI Solution: Everything Up to And Including Theme Music?
Branding and other forms of internal marketing are absolutely essential for successful BI projects — and it’s an area where the teams don’t often have a lot of expertise. This article touches on some of the key things teams should to do promote BI projects successfully.
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What Might Go Wrong in Business Intelligence in 2009?
In 2009, people will be tempted to hand-code scripts for analysis, implement standards without changing organization structures, and implement new business unit silos.
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Is Your Company’s Strategy a Secret, Even to Your Employees?
A performance management project recently stalled when executives decided that the strategy map was too confidential to roll out…
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Classic BI. Sigh.
A classic example of classic BI. Sigh. Technology fixes are not the answer — ultimately, BI success is about a long and typically hard struggle to create an information culture where people are trained how to access information and rewarded for using it to create business advantage
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Asking for Your Help: User Percentage Research?
Business intelligence standardization (which I define as “pragmatically reducing the number of overlapping tools in order to reduce costs and maximize the benefits of business intelligence”) seems to be on the rise, at least in my neck of the woods. Several large customers are looking for external validation of how many BI users they “should”…
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Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail — And What To Do About It
Learn how to avoid the mistakes that other companies have made implementing BI solutions — presentation from Sapphire in Berlin 2008
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BI Success Factors: What’s Your Job? (Superhero)
If you are in charge of a business intelligence project, your job is not to implement software. It is not to “keep the business happy”. It is to use your expertise to help the company transform the way it does business — a heroic undertaking
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Profitability Analysis: The “Magic Bullet” for Strategic BI Success?
After discussing profitability analysis with a series of diverse customers, I’ve come away convinced that it may even be a “magic bullet” that helps promote enduring BI success.
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2008: From Business Automation to Business Optimization?
However you define the goals of your organization—whether it’s about profit, or saving lives—it’s all about the quest for performance. Today, 9 out of 10 companies fail to execute their strategies. That’s a sobering statistic—and an opportunity for IT organizations everywhere.