{"id":11881,"date":"2007-06-14T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-06-14T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:47:59","slug":"performance_excellence_past_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/performance_excellence_past_an.html","title":{"rendered":"Performance Excellence, Past and Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dvq.com\/ads\/philco_sa_6_59.jpg\" target=\"_new\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/ItsAlwaysBeenAboutBI_E92B\/formenwhodecidethefuture7.jpg?resize=450%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aresluna.org\/attached\/pics\/computerhistory\/ads\/international\/ibm\/percon8207.big.jpg\" target=\"_new\" atomicselection=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aresluna.org\/attached\/computerhistory\/ads\/international\/microsoft\/pics\/multiplan-percon8401\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; float: right; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/ItsAlwaysBeenAboutBI_E92B\/multiplanpercon8401_big4.jpg?resize=169%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"169\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aresluna.org\/attached\/pics\/computerhistory\/ads\/international\/ibm\/percon8207.big.jpg\" target=\"\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; float: right; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/ItsAlwaysBeenAboutBI_E92B\/IBMpersonalcomputerad9.jpg?resize=115%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"115\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/a>One of the problems of explaining the value of business intelligence is that <em>every<\/em> layer of computing has always promised some variation on &#8220;better management&#8221; as the ultimate benefit of purchasing the system.<\/p>\n<p>From 1959 mainframes (above), early &#8220;executive information systems&#8221;, the 1982 IBM PC (right), the first spreadsheets (far right), 1980s ERP systems and&nbsp;&#8220;decision support systems&#8221;&nbsp;to today&#8217;s BI and Performance Management systems, the mantra has <em>always<\/em> been &#8220;better decisions&#8221; and &#8220;more visibility into the future&#8221; (click on the images to see the original ads).<\/p>\n<p>But this time we really mean it &#8212;&nbsp;don&#8217;t we?&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Or as, in the past, will there be yet more layers that will add extra value and get closer to management nirvana? If so, what does the next one look like?<\/p>\n<p>One thing that is clearly lacking in most of today&#8217;s systems is the acknowledgement that &#8220;performance&#8221; depends on a lot more than just what&#8217;s going on in any one organization &#8212; will the next layer will be about providing better management across ecosystems and industries as a whole? &#8220;Collective Performance Management&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems of explaining the value of business intelligence is that every layer of computing has always promised some variation on &#8220;better management&#8221; as the ultimate benefit of purchasing the system. From 1959 mainframes (above), early &#8220;executive information systems&#8221;, the 1982 IBM PC (right), the first spreadsheets (far right), 1980s ERP systems and&nbsp;&#8220;decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,204,805],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/formenwhodecidethefuture7-1.jpg?fit=450%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-35D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}