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 [...]
Gartner, in releasing its 2010 survey of CIO priorities, noted that chief information officers have suffered through a difficult budget tightening period, with budgets essentially cut back to 2005 levels. It appears budgets will stabilize or grow slightly this year, according to Gartner, which surveyed 1,568 CIOs, but it will take some time to overcome [...]
BI Now Regarded as Urgent For Many Companies If businesses were in doubt before as to whether they could justify the cost and implementation schedule of business intelligence solutions, the recession is certainly making them wish they had taken the jump earlier. There are many comments as to how the rate of change in business [...]
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 [...]
With many articles having been written about the cause and expected course of the current recession, it is time to look past the theory and focus on real tools and strategies needed to survive the current downturn.
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 [...]
If we have learned anything from the 2008 Olympic Games it is that winners and losers are only separated by 1/100th of a second. On the track and in the water champions are winning the day by margins previously immeasurable. The same applies to business. The consumer choice between your product and that of your [...]
Many organisations are looking to CIO’s to become change agents in the organisation. But is this the best use of the skills of the person in this role – or indeed, as in many cases, does the CIO have the right skills for this job. CIO’s are commonly joint CTO / CIO’s, with already overloaded [...]
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