Dashboards are rapidly becoming the convergence point between two powerful performance capabilities: Performance Management Business Intelligence In my lastest article I outline why each of these performance tools is lacking within their own domain, and how powerful they become as collaborative partners. Read the full article: Dashboards – A Convergence of Performance Management and Business [...]
Stephen Pierce presents 10 thought provoking questions in his recent report, Planning – Are You Planning To Win By Planning to Fail? Stephens main point in this report is that we are guided in our decisions and perspectives based on the information we look at consistently every day – our business reports. Many reports are [...]
The latest Gartner 2009 CIO Agenda survey of 1500 CIO’s has revealed some surprising and not so surprising results. Firstly, the not so surprising is that BI has been voted as the top technology for 2009, with the focus of its application on improving business processes. This supports the maturation of business intelligence into the [...]
When organizations first start with BI, there tends to be a focus on the visual excitement of the dashboard. At this point, there is a danger that the focus of the group will be on the results, and not the action to drives these results. This is where deconstructing corporate objective KPI’ down to a [...]
In such times of great instability and uncertainty it is easy to adopt a defensive response or wildly change strategy. However, research has proven that two core activities support business growth not only in times such as these, but at any time. Staying Close to the Customer – rather than adopting a protective retention strategy [...]
New Zealand is largely comprised of small businesses, under 100FTE. But small does not necessarily equate to inefficient and technology adverse as shown by a recent “Innovation for Growth” survey conducted by the Employers and Manufacturers Association Northern and commissioned by software vendor SAP. The survey found that a significant percentage of local firms believe [...]
One of the main difficulties software implementers face is the dirty state of corporate data. Yet in most cases, the organisation fiercely defends that their data is clean and quality controlled. There are many factors that impact corporate data quality beyond that which simple ETL tools can manage. Technology is only half the picture. The [...]
Following on from my previous blog ‘Does Sharing Information Decrease Performance’ it is interesting to see Gartner also supports decision making as being the hot BI project for 2008. Proposing that gut instinct is being replaced by “access to data that’s good enough to take quick action on”, Mark McDonald, a vice president at Gartner, [...]
Comments(0) Much of the focus of business intelligence capability is providing the “right information” to the “right people” at the “right time.” Yet the opposite is also true. Often, the greatest value of BI is keeping information away from business users, instead allowing process-embedded analytical tools to extract real time information and initiate rules based actions [...]
If you want a good update webinar on the next generation of business intelligence (BI), you may find this webinar a useful catch up. The webinar focuses on delivering near real-time operational BI and the latest technology trends and components of next-generation BI architectures. The case study is presented by William McKnight, Snr VP for CSI, professional service providers [...]
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