Financing the BI Solution: The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links
This series is looking at the financial factors of building your BI solution. Most larger corporations today already have some form of business intelligence in place so the interest here may be more in applying these principles to upgrading your solution. Yet surprisingly there are always greenfield solutions being applied is some corner of the [...]
BI Project Decisions: Ready Made Database Options
There are broadly two types of ready-made Data Warehouse available, these are:
A full data model, usually linked closely with an operational application. SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel and other software suppliers provide Data Warehouses linked with their ERP and CRM applications.
An industry [...]
Financing the Business Intelligence Project (Buy or Build?)
In order to finance the project it is necessary to decide how the underlying Data Warehouse is to be created. This means the Project Board will need to decide:
Whether to use a ready-made solution or have it custom built
What degree of external staffing resources are [...]
Do Corporations have to think about International Law/Treaties?
Google recently announced that it will no longer censor search results on its Chinese site. The sad aspect about this affair is largely the fact that that Google has been prepared to limit freedom of speech for some of its users. China has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore has a duty [...]
Delivery & Success – It is All About Setting Goals & Reaching Them!
Historically it has been shown that successful people all set themselves achievable goals and then work out a plan to succeed. Whenever it comes the time for the annual performance review, or even our new years resolutions, we often set ourselves unreachable targets then fail to monitor our progress against these. No wonder many feel [...]
Google Wave: How Important Is this Collaboration Tool to Business?
Since my earlier article I have been tinkering and following much about Google’s new flagship collaboration product, including following some interesting public waves. This is a lengthy review of what Wave is all about and how I envision it being being used in the corporate environment. This article is written in Wave to allow anyone with a Google Wave account to collaborate, and add their own experiences.
Relationship Based Business – How do you measure up?
Business is constantly changing and reinventing itself. I spoke at an event recently about growing relationship based businesses. I preparing my initial thinking was summed up in the question: surely every business is relationship based? So it is; you have no sales without having a basic relationship with a customer. Firstly I gave a great [...]
The Changing World of Business Communications
From the dawn of human history we have communicated to each other. The requirement to trade and barter is perhaps one of the original primitive desires that drove us to improve our ability to communicate, to improve the number of words used etc. Speech is undoubtedly our first means of communication in history. We have [...]
How to Deploy Social Media
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This video is by Peter B. Giblett, Co-Founder and Chief Ideas Officer of P3 Social Media.
This presentation is designed to give you an overview of how to implement Social Media [...]
Virtual Teams, Project Slippage & The ‘Fear Factor’
One of the biggest challenges in managing remote, or viurtual projects, has always been one of communication and collaboration. From the management perspective it is not possible to simply walk down the corridor and see the fear in people’s eyes: not fear of physical harm, but the fear that you are going to ask them [...]
Personal Social Media – Is there a Business Connection?
As we reach the season of goodwill etc., etc. I thought I would take a look at the ’social’ aspects of Social Media.
Almost the first aspect of this newly developing media that hit the streets was the way that it was being used by those in their teens and twenties as a new means of [...]
“End of Year Rush” Business Planning Alleviates the Need.
About a year ago in an article on IT Toolbox I asked whether the “End of Year Rush” was really necessary. I concluded that “Change the business culture – from one of ad-hoc, last-minute requests to proper planning of the work is essential”. One year on and this question continues to have relevance with some [...]
