Archive for October, 2008

Hail The Benefits of the Greed Depression

This weeks blog is somewhat diverted from the usual corporate theme as we take a look at how the impending ‘Depression’ is set to sort out excessism of both consumers and businesses alike.
We had the Great Depression of the 1930’s and are now witnessing the Greed Depression of the 2000’s. I might be the only [...]

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IT Infrastructure Takes Top Spots in Gartner 2009 Strategic Forecast

Gartner has released its Top Tech list for 2009, and BI sits at #9. This years top strategic technology is very much based at the infrastructure, rather than the application level with virtualization, cloud computing, computing fabric, web-oriented architecture and unified communications. This has somewhat overpowered
the strategic value of BI, but is significant to BI [...]

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Identifying Your True Corporate DNA

I often get asked where the name ‘Coded Vision’ came from for our consulting business. The answer is quite simple.
Just as human DNA holds the code that prescribes the propensity of an individual to display certain physical characteristics, psychological profile and other genetically influenced elements a business profile can be formed by the ‘code of [...]

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Keep Your Business On The Edge

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space. Living on the edge of innovative trends is what business is all about. It’s a continual reinvention of ones business persona, product and service. What was yesterdays promise is old news – consumers today what you to tell them why [...]

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The Difference Between Metrics KRI, PI and KPI

One area I find there is often a lot of confusion around, is the definition, difference and use of the various metrics: KRA’s, KRI’s, PI’s and KPIs. So lets quickly clarify the difference between each and how they are applied to dashboards and scorecards.
First, let’s just revist the difference between a dashboard and a scorecard:
The primary difference between [...]

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