Decision Making
Computer Games Used for Training in Decision Making
A prototype that could be used in computer games or e-learning to help train users in decision making is the focus of a study of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast. The theory is taht by using the game to help players improve their ability recognise and make allowances for their […]
Who Is Running The Business?
I have just been reading Robert Peston’s book Who Runs Britain? I recognised many parallels with Who Runs Business? With the Internet expanding the voice of shareholders across blogs, news sites and forums, is logical decision making being crowded out by shareholder pandering to silence the hounds. Just how much […]
Cloud & BI – Together Driving Intelligent Leadership
In a world that is complex, globally interdependent and massively interconnected, business strategies are becoming increasingly accepted as having a shorter time focuses and being adaptable within that period. Thus, strategic decisions must be based on real time evidence-based insight and collaborative expertise. Traditional command and control leadership models are […]
Aligning KPI, Business Rules and Decisions
Many 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 […]
Leadership Judgement vs. Rational Decision Making
Making judgement calls is an everyday activity for most leaders. But often, decisions are too complex to rely on gut feel or instinct. They require sufficient information to drive more logic based decisions. We start making judgement decisions from the day we are born, taking in all the environmental, comfort […]
Research Backs Up Current Views Over Cloud Computing
One 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 […]
Are We Getting Better At Decision Making?
I came across this video and it raised an interesting point – are we getting any better at decision making? Now the studies prove that we are not making better decisions, but are we any better at how we approach our decisions? According to this video the anwer is NO! […]
Edumotional Selling
One of the paradoxes of sales performance today is that the customer expects the sales person to have in-depth understanding of their unique business, and they also expect immediate response. So just how does a sales rep meet this challenge – they must do a lot more work upfront of […]
Wine Intelligence Provides Interesting Case Study During Recession
I was glancing through the headlines of my BI RSS feed when I came to a sudden stop at the headline “Wine Intelligence”. Now anyone who knows me will acknowledge that my passion for BI is only equalled by my passion for fine wines and chocolate. So this headline was […]
Choice of 3 Simple Responses to the Current Downturn
Since most of you have been bombarded with blog entries and articles on how to survive the tough times, I am going to keep this short and sweet. There are only 3 ways to respond to the current situation: Ignore It, Accept Defeat, or Take Control And the way to take […]