Archive for October, 2007

Business Intelligence Firm Final Muster?

Over the past few years, most smaller niche BI vendors have already been absorbed by medium-sized and large software companies. And it seems the final few who have held their independence, are finally falling victim to the giant software vendors. Application and BPM vendors are hot for BI functionality and are willing to pay for [...]

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Cognos 8 BI for Microsoft Excel

Cognos 8 BI for Microsoft Excel uses Microsoft Excel software to slice, dice and drill down on OLAP data sources.
MS Excel is holding onto its status as a leading business intelligence tool in many companies. In spite of Excels risks and limitations as a BI tool, it is the interface that most business users identify [...]

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Is Management Still A Professional Role?

A recent article from Harvard Business School “Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?” posed an interesting debate. It claimed that elite business schools were contributing to the deprofessionalization of management “by building more value in theirĀ alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching”.
Now we all recognize the reality of the old school [...]

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The Corporate Performance Pyramid

Corporate performance is a bit like a pyramid. Although the strategy may be positioned at the very peak of the structure, unless all the supporting structure is designed to support that peak, then the strategy is at risk.
Corporate performance starts at the top of an organisation to look at how focused the corporate vision is, [...]

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