BI Strategy
Aligning KPI, Business Rules and Decisions
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Many businesses struggle with identifying their key performance indicators, from just performance indicators, and then reducing the number of KPI to those 3-4 that should be the primary focus at a particular time. They also fail to add one critical component to their KPI schedule that makes the difference as to whether performance to those [...]
Do You Need a Chief Performance Officer [CPO]?
Sunday, July 19th, 2009You are no doubt aware of Obamas appointment of a CPO. It has raised an interesting discussion on Harvard Business Review Online as to whether this role is essential or whether it falls under the role of COO or CEO.
Check out the article and comments and let me know your views – I like to know [...]
When Facts Don’t Help Your Business
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009In a recent post by Seth Godin ‘Facts Always Win, Right?‘ he raises the challenge of when relying on facts gain be at the peril of your business. As a great advocate of making business decisions based on facts, rather than subjectively filtered personal emotions, I certainly support that different rules apply in marketing functions.
Selling [...]
Research Backs Up Current Views Over Cloud Computing
Thursday, May 21st, 2009One of the major constraints of business intelligence implementation is the processing capability of the enterprise infrastructure. Cloud computing offers a feasible solution to this issue – but it doesn’t come without a number of obstacles. A recent report published by Berkeley Research Report on Cloud Computing outlines their views on cloud computing.
On the positive [...]
vSphere – Changing the Face of IT
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009The role of IT managers is changing. Changing from selecting boxes and pipes that run the business transactions and communications to selecting and negotiating IT service contracts, managing SLA’s and seeking out new technologies to boost business performance.
Today, 75% of IT budgets are spent on keeping the lights on. This is severely restricting allocation for [...]
BI May Be Sleep Solution For Executives
Monday, January 12th, 2009Recently BusinessWeek published the 10 top things that keep business leaders awake at night. So naturally, I thought I would offer my view of the top solutions to these problems as they relate to The Logical Organization.
Top 8 Sleep-Killers
The top eight issues keeping business leaders awake at night include:
“the constant pressure to meet and beat [...]
The Great BI Debate
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I just finished commenting on a rollicking debate about BI – The Great Debate: Business Intelligence but suggest you click over to read all the comments, as they covered off many of the reasons that I wrote The Logical Organization.
I congratulate all on a great debate. All contributors made valid points, albeit from different perspectives. As [...]