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 required This is the first part in a [...]
The Interplay of Social Media, Business Intelligence, and Cost Effectiveness
Social Media, Business Intelligence, and Cost Effectiveness are three major business issues that are rarely put together in the same sentence. Yet all do have a role to play in improving business results. From the ability to leverage Social Media as a Marketing and Customer Services tool that allows our business to communicate more effectively. [...]
Social Media meets BI: Finding Social Media’s Business Value
With the rise of every new business tool comes the need to leverage it correctly in order to provide business value. I have talked before about “when people are talking about your brand the business needs to be on the pulse” and needs to responding appropriately. Social Media intelligence is about managing that intervention. Business [...]
How to Leverage the Social Media Channel for Business Success
One of the questions that I have been talking to many businesses about recently is leveraging the Social Media channel as a marketing tool. There are a great deal of so-called ‘Social Media Marketing experts’ talking on this subject on a daily basis. Yet the majority of these are marketing people who are simply advising [...]
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 [...]
CIO Thinking, Some Thoughts (Part 1 – I think).
I am always interested in how other IT leaders approach challenges. Information Week edition May 25th had an article on the ‘Global CIO Fifty’ that allowed me look at their approaches. I would welcome your comments in this area as well. The need to spend less is almost global. Some of the other priorities include: [...]
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 [...]
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