Providing Strategic Value: Solidify your BI Strategy

One of the major challenges that IT leaders face, particularly the CIO, is in providing strategic value. One aspect that always needs to be considered here is the provision of strategic information through Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM). Not Just Simple Reporting BI type solutions, of which CPM is a key part, [...]

January 19th, 2011 by Peter B. Giblett 

Belt Tightening or Growth? IT’s Opportunity to Contribute!

Having recently moved house and office I came across an article I had meant to read months ago, which somehow ended up packed in a box for discovery this week. In particular what caught my attention was an article called “Return to Growth“. In it Chris Murphy makes the point that “belt tightening isn’t over, [...]

November 17th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett 

First Things First: Perform the Process Review!

There seems to be a common error in writing about implementing applications, it occurs when an author suggests “first select the right vendor”. Absolutely NOT. Little wonder so many implementations go wrong. The first step in doing any systems implementation is: understand, and document, the business process involved. In other words know the fullest scope [...]

February 25th, 2010 by Peter B. Giblett