Statistics, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Whenever I see an article about statistics this old adage always comes to mind. When I see statistics on their own it is of-course even worse. I was hunting the web recently and came across a few statistics. Apparently only 60% of business decisions are based on analytics. Of-course the more telling part of this [...]
Good Decision Making
I think that I have good business instincts and given any situation I will make a good decision. Looking back on my career I am probably batting well above average, but is that good enough? In order to make a good decision it is important to have at hand all of the pertinent facts. In [...]
Strategies for Leading Business Change & The Social Media Impact
According to Chris Potts “the CIO role… is destined to become either an executive leader of business change or absorbed into another role” and “the need for corporate leadership in change has never been greater and is unlikely to recede”. I wholy agree with Chris here. In looking at this statement it is to me [...]
What is Holding Back Effective Enterprisewide BI Adoption?
Business Intelligence is recognised as the number 1 corporate priority for most CIO’s. There is much press on this subject at the moment, which is leading to a few of the solution providers to critique why there is a perceived failure to deliver the right solutions. I am looking to examine this from an independent [...]
BI in the Clouds
Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) is peeking many interests within the IT community. As I stated previously Gartner believes that 25% of all software will be delivered through an SaaS based service by 2011. At the same time Business Intelligence usage is expected to rise 130% by 2010. Many SaaS vendors are currently planning [...]
Leveraging Information to Create a Competitive Advantage
The first part to this article titled “The Advantage of Good Business Intelligence” was published recently. This article continues from the conclusion that: A Data Warehouse will provide the information that enables these questions to be answered via quantitative methods and analysis. Often this is provided by a combination of internal data and external research. [...]
The Advantage of Good Business Intelligence
This is an excerpt from a book in-progress about successful BI implementation and is published here to give the reader clarity about my background… The aim of most corporations is to run their organisations with minimal cost and use informed decisions in order to give them a competitive advantage. In all too many organisations data [...]
Free BI Licenses! Can this be True?
When a former colleague and friend contacted me last week to tell me that his favourite Business Intelligence application now offers free licensing, then I had to sit-up and listen. “Microsoft is today offering free BI licenses!” he said. Well I had to investigate this further, so he pointed me at his web-site for further [...]
Is a SaaS based BI Solution Really Viable?
According to Gartner 25% of all software will be delivered through an SaaS based service by 2011. At the same time Business Intelligence usage is expected to rise 130% by 2010. Many SaaS vendors are currently planning to incorporate BI in parallel to their applications, some are partnering with BI vendors to make this happen. [...]
The Data Warehouse Must be Included within the Disaster Recovery Plan as a Critical System!
It was a flood on the famous River Thames in the suburban town of Staines just outside London England nearly 20 years ago that originally got me thinking about the impact of a disaster on a business. Through regular checks on proximity of water to the air-conditioner unit we knew that that we were just [...]
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