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| 2010/06/25 10 Components of a Successful BI Strategy Plan
Defining a successful BI strategy is a lot more than gathering requirements and selecting a vendor. While it’s been a subject of many books, I know few of you have time to read them, so here’s a short version.
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| 2009/12/02 New rule: Look out, not in
Not all firms implementing Six Sigma were able to find the same magic as GE. In fact, of 58 large companies that have announced Six Sigma programs, 91 percent have trailed the S&P 500 since, according to an analysis by Charles Holland of consulting firm Qualpro (which espouses a competing quality-improvement process)....
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| 2009/07/21 How to Build a Successful BI Strategy
If you are starting to build BI capabilities in your enterprise and are not sure how to proceed, you aren't alone. It is a challenge to select the right combination of people, processes and technology to design a successful BI enterprise. To overcome this challenge you need to build an effective BI strategy, which is driven by business objectives, enables stakeholders with better decision-making capabilities and helps the enterprise achieve desired goals. It is common for an enterprise to develop a BI strategy only to find it on the shelf later because it is not acceptable across the enterprise. An effective BI strategy should ensure that enterprise objectives, business strategy, investments and BI are aligned. Enterprises that are able to connect BI to overall enterprise objectives become intelligent enterprises....
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| 2009/07/17 Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference round-up for Microsoft BI
New Orleans was host to the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2009 this week. With over 8,000 in attendance the WPC is a yearly opportunity for MS partners to connect with each other and gain insight into Microsoft's strategy and direction. I was able to attend the conference and wanted to provide a roundup for the exposure around Business Intelligence and some of the announcements that were made....
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| 2009/07/15 Implementing Business Intelligence Standards: Save Money and Improve Business Insight
Implementing BI standards requires a pragmatic, phased approach that takes into account the organizational realities of large organizations, and the business value of existing BI applications.This post gives an overview of the advantages of implementing BI standards, and takes a look at some of the real-life, best practice techniques used by industry leaders. Read on to learn how successful organizations have standardized on business intelligence - and why you should join them....
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| 2009/06/26 Tactical Meandering
I was reminded of the expression 'tactical meandering' , which I used to use quite a bit, by a thread on the LinkedIn.com Business Intelligence Group forum. The title of this was Is BI recession-proof? The conversation on the thread turned to the fact that, in the current economic climate, there may be less focus on major, strategic BI initiatives and more on quick, tactical ones that address urgent business needs....
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| 2009/06/26 Holistic vs Incremental approaches to BI
There is a strong link here to my Vision vs Pragmatism article. In this I argued that Vision and Pragmatism are both essential for the success of any project, be that related to change, to IT, and certainly when using IT to drive change. Unsurprisingly, similar comments apply to whether a holistic or incremental approach to BI is the superior route. However, in this case, I will come down more firmly on the side of one of the options....
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| 2009/06/21 MicroStrategy's Big Picture
MicroStrategy did something interesting in mid-April when it began offering a full free download of its latest MicroStrategy 9 reporting suite software for groups of up to 100 users. It includes the core reporting components: the Web interface, the Intelligence Server and a pretty complete set of development tools. The strategy came about because of the very proliferation of simpler cheaper tools businesses are now seeking to consolidate. “What brought this to the forefront of our attention was we noticed that in most of our big accounts, MicroStrategy is running on top of the data warehouse and serves 1,000 or 5,000 users,” LaRow told me. “But then they’ll also have 20 or 30 small islands of departmental BI using everybody else’s technology. We wondered why they weren’t deploying MicroStrategy at the departmental level.”...
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| 2009/03/26 Business intelligence strategy success a matter of alignment
Business intelligence (BI) remains a top investment priority for companies of all sizes, but there are disconnects between these investments and the business value derived. In fact, only 15% to 20% of business users in organizations that have a business intelligence strategy are actually using BI tools, according to Gartner Inc....
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| 2009/01/23 Business Process Management (BPM) - BPM Implementation - An Application Reduction Strategy
Many companies today are looking to reduce the number of installed/supported applications as a way to save money and reduce complexity. Money is saved via reduced licensing, support and integration costs. However, many do not have a clear execution strategy, even while investing in application portfolio management solutions to get a better understanding of the application portfolio and tracking existing applications....
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| 2008/10/09 Aligning Strategy with Business Processes
The value of IT lies in its ability to execute strategic business objectives. In reality however, setting strategic objectives, putting processes in place to achieve them and realizing the desired results is easier said than done. Organizations of all sizes struggle at times to make this happen, because often, the ability to align and execute a strategy has a much greater impact on value than the choice of strategy....
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| 2008/09/29 How to get exec buy-in for app development projects
The software development department might envision a marvelous solution to the company's IT or business need, but the technology goal can't be achieved unless the Big Boss commits to the new strategy. How do you get there-and ensure that the user need really is filled?...
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| 2008/02/20 TDWI Keynote: Larry English Takes on the Status Quo
Organizations that aren't managing information as a resource are wasting as much as half their IT budgets "moving data from database A to database B." This troubling perspective, from expert Larry English, kicked off this week's TDWI World Conference in L...
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| 2008/02/20 TDWI Insight: Guiding BI From the Top
To develop effective business intelligence programs, lead with organization, not technology. That's the consensus advice from many of the speakers here at the TDWI World Conference and Executive Summit here in Las Vegas this week.
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| 2008/01/07 The Best Companies Do Better with BI
Top service organizations using business intelligence enjoy a 42 percent better improvement in customer retention than do laggard firms using the same systems, according to a recent report. The report postulates that increasing customer demand for faste
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