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Are
You Facing LOWER Profitability This Year?
Have You Got REAL Evidence Your Product Meets Your Customers Needs?
Have You Identified ALL Your Markets and EXACTLY What They Want
From You?
Are
You SPENDING MORE on Advertising For Little Improvement in Sales?
If you are like most business owners, executives and managers,
you recognize it is getting harder to understand all the forces
on your business, let alone the technology driving it.
Not because you don’t want – but because changes are
becoming more rapid and more complex that it is almost impossible
to understand all the relationships and how they will affect your
business. It is also difficult to find someone to explain all the
different elements of BI technology and exactly what value it can
add to your business.
That is precisely why ‘The
Logical Organization: A Strategic Guide to Driving Corporate
Performance Using Business Intelligence’ was
written.
It helps to explain the full concept of business intelligence without
all the technical gobblygook and tells you exactly why BI is currently
the hottest business investment, what you need to know before you
invest in it and how to get the most from BI in your organization.
I have been a consultant for over 20 years and worked with CEO’s
of major corporations, small business owners and everyone in between.
I have worked closely with both the business and IT so am able to
translate IT lingo into a language that you, as a business person,
can understand.
I also know that those business leaders who do not make the effort
to understand business intelligence will find it increasingly difficult
to compete against those who do. So I decided to do something constructive
to help you.
I recognised that
you would want a book that:
- Didn't waste your time
with waffle
- Showed you exactly how BI can be used in your
business
- Explained technical elements in
business speak
- Would answer all your questions
about BI, any time
- Told you exactly what technology
you needed, with tips on buying it
- Gave you strategy
to ensure your BI program
is a success
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This is the book that gives you all the advice that a $500/hr
consultant will give you – for a fraction of the
cost. And it’s with you 24x7.
Whats Inside!
The Logical Organization is divided into four parts to make it
easy for you to locate exactly what you are looking for:
Part One –
takes you on a learning journey to the fully
strategic aligned Logical Organization. It helps you understand
how every day business decisions are made, and why the way you
made decisions ten years ago doesn't work today. It is during
this journey, that you will recognize the full potential
of BI in terms of supporting business structure, growth,
agility, profitability and ongoing existence.
Part Two –
provides a high level view of what technology is required
to support a fully operational BI capability. This section is
essential reading for managers required to sign off on BI investments.
You will gain an understanding of, and recognise the value of
each component, learn the most sensible order of investment, and
get tips on how to evaluate BI solutions from
a business value perspective, rather than an IT perspective. This
will truly help you make the best BI solution decisions.
Part Three –
is provided as an insight into how BI is used in
various corporate functions and key industries. Often, by understanding
how BI is used in one area of the business, or in a totally different
industry, we gain more insight and innovation as to how we might
deploy it for our own purposes.
Part Four –
provides consulting guidance as to the best way to
launch and structure a BI program. It highlights key
roles and resources and directs the reader to further sources
of information. This section is most valuable to the executive
sponsor of BI projects, programs or BICC’s, and consultants
needing to know more about BI programs.
Why You Need It
Business intelligence makes sense. As an ex airline pilot I know
the value of being able to quickly gain insight that tells me both
what is happening inside my aircraft but also outside. Without it,
I wouldn’t be able to get to my destination, know exactly
what resources I would need to get there, and how to ensure that
I make a healthy profit whilst looking after my passengers needs.
You business is like your aircraft – you
need a very clear plan of where you are going and how to get there
profitably. If something changes that will affect your plan, you
need to know - not tomorrow – not next month – but ANYTIME!
It's your business radar.
You don’t want to have to wade through pages of reports –
you want information on your desktop in a way that is as easy to
read and determine the impact on your business.
Most organisations have survived by making strategic decisions
based upon less than valid information and strongly tainted by subjective
input. Whilst this ‘intuitive’ or ‘seat of the
pants’ approach to business may have produced reasonable results
in previous years, the factors that are now driving the business
environment make this approach unsuited to sustainable performance.
That’s what business intelligence does for you. It gets your
business out of the rut of relying on decision makers that ‘think
they know how to get there’ and try to compete in a modern
world with outdated perspectives.
What Readers Have Said About TLO
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What i really
liked about TLO is the way the information is organized. It
made it really easy to read in chunks, and to refer back to
get advice on different aspects of BI. As a business executive
I actually found the technology section really interesting,
which surprised me - I normally fall asleep over this. But
Gail writes with a minimal style [which i appreciate] and
tells you exactly what you need to know and do. I didn't want
a lot of waffle about BI - I needed some really practical
and strategic advice. I got what i needed so will
look for more books by this author in the future.
Exec2340.
Posted December 9, 2009
I had no idea how misaligned my decision making was until
I read this book - I am now a dedicated whole brain executive
and have a new goal to transform my business into 'the logical
organization'. A must read! Mediamax.
Goodreads March, 2009
Excellent tool to have.
I had purchased earlier the book from L.T. Moss & S. Atre Business
Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support
Applications, although a wonderful tool but soemthing was
missing. When I was talking to my clients about how to prepare
the journey for BI enterprise wide deployment, I didn't have
and manage to get all the boxes ticked; ended up into delayed
project. This book helps me to better prepare in my consulting
approach and I also recommend it to some of my clients. IT
or non IT savy can largely benefit from it. Laurent
Grandisson (Dubai, UAE). September 15, 2010. Amazon.com
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Who is it For?
The Logical Organizagtion
has been written to help:
- Business Owners
- Executives and Managers
- BI Program Team Members
- IT Managers
- Consultants
- BI Vendors
- Educators and Trainers
The Logical Organizagtion
will guide you through the essentials of business intelligence capability.
It is not a technical manual. It is written for the business, with
sufficient technical content to help decision makers understand
the impact of core corporate technology underpinning their strategic
competence.
The Logical Organization
explains how to bring your business up to the top rank, compete
with the best and keep you there. It’s one investment you
really CAN afford.
The price of this book is a very small investment that
could save you tens of thousands of dollars this year alone.
Start Making Better
Business Decisions Right Now
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