Category: Uncategorized
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The Central Importance of Strategy?
Why do we tolerate strategy, initiatives, and goals to be scattered around the organization, in dozens of incompatible formats? If organizations are struggling to execute corporate strategy, wouldn’t it help to have all the company initiatives, at every level, for every team, stored in one place, so that you could actually see what was happening?
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Data Quality and Bandit Sheep?
A country decided to create a central data warehouse to get a “single view of the criminal” — and ended up with more criminals than population…
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SAP and Business Objects
Recorded presentation as training material for upcoming “IT Innovation” Seminar series.
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Why Build Your Own BI Platform?
Sure, you can cobble together your own BI platform, but it will seem increasingly ridiculous to do so.
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BI and Societe Generale?
Much has been written about the approximately 5 billion Euros that Société Générale lost because of Jerome Kerviel, a junior arbitrage trader. What’s interesting about it from a BI point of view? Can BI help? First, it’s worth noting that Société Générale is a big Business Objects customer, so their problems came despite having having…
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BI vs. the Web?
BI is like a worldwide web where implementing each link costs $100k and takes IT six months to implement. Fantastic possibilities. Slow progress.
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Top 5 BI Predictions for (the Rest of) 2008
OK, so it’s February, and I’m late to the party (it got busy for a while), but here’s my belated thoughts on the top five BI trends this year. I’ll avoid the standard laundry-list of “BI 2.0” (or even BI 3.0, sigh) tech trends, and instead concentrate on some of the BI market and customer…
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Business Objects Memory Lane
A few photos from the early days of Business Objects
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Is “One Version of the Truth” Outdated?
It’s time to retiring the notion of “one version of the truth” — it’s as useful as striving for “one version of politics”.
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Did AT&T Call The Recession First, Using BI?
There’s increasing agreement that the US economy is already in recession. Interestingly, we can’t know for sure because the statistics used for the formal definition (a decline in a country’s gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year) take around six months to compile. What’s different…