{"id":11929,"date":"2007-12-05T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-12-05T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:33:58","slug":"operational_bi_common_sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/operational_bi_common_sense.html","title":{"rendered":"Operational BI = Common Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotted in a ComputerWorld\/SAS Operational BI document called “BI @ the Speed of of Business”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Mark Moorman, Advisor to the Office of the CTO at SAS… cites one government agency that was required to buy only low-grade lumber for construction projects. When a supplier offered to significantly discount a large stockpile of high-quality lumber in order to clear its warehouses, the agency had to turn him down, even though it meant paying more for an inferior product. It didn’t matter; that was the policy.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The document implies the answer to this problem is “operational BI”. I think there are lots of great examples of where companies can provide information to front-line workers to improve decision making, but this is not one of them.<\/p>\n

BI and transparency can, and should, replace policies in many cases — e.g. see “BI Instead of Expense Controls<\/a>” — but this is independent of operational BI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAS argues that operational BI can replace common sense? (see full posting for details)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[204,790],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business-intelligence","tag-operational-bi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-36p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929","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=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}