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Review of 2008 Predictions: How did I do?
Last February, I chose my top 5 BI predictions for 2008. It’s now almost the end of the year and I’m thinking about 2009 predictions but before that post, how do last year’s stack up?
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If Europe Could Vote in the US Elections?
Some fun with Xcelsius, using polling data gathered by the Economist. Click on the different countries to see the percentages. Use the slider to see how many times more votes McCain would need to have a chance of winning such an election… Download a model as a PowerPoint slide
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BI: Strategic but not Trendy?
Just in case you missed it — BI is (somewhat predictably) one of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2009. Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI), the top technology priority in Gartner’s 2008 CIO survey, can have a direct positive impact on a company’s business performance, dramatically improving its ability to accomplish its mission by making…
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The Pie is Shrinking?
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Are CFOs Good for Business Intelligence?
Are CFOs good for Business Intelligence
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Bad Incentives
An example of the problem of aligning incentives and objectives — paying doctors to ignore patients
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Risky Performance?
Time and time again, organizations merrily optimizing their business bite the dust because of “unforeseen circumstances” — i.e. badly-managed risk and compliance. Today’s example is San Francisco’s FiberWan network…
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Public Sector BI Incompatible with “Leaps of Faith”?
A couple of recent Boston globe articles talk about IBM/Cognos returning $13m because of bidding irregularities and questions over conflict of interest. The biggest net result is that some 20,000 people have been prevented from accessing information that could help improve the state’s education systems.
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Time for Voice of the Customer?
Hurwitz provides the results to a new BI survey: Voice of the Customer is #1 use of text analytics, still big gap in perceived importance between query and reporting and OLAP data cubes.
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SAPPHIRE Berlin
I’m getting ready for SAPPHIRE Berlin next week — I’ll be giving presentations on “Why BI Projects Fail and What to do about it” and “Delivering Results with Business Intelligence”