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As experienced business intelligence consultants specializing in BI strategy, we’ve seen large successful companies in many industries struggle with envisioning BI uses.  In our forthcoming book, provisionally titled Business Intelligence Strategy: Lessons from Industry Leaders, we will provide industry-specific and function-specific examples of business intelligence opportunities and BI uses.  In this blog post, we provide [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

Over the past 13 years, my colleagues and I at DecisionPath have had the privilege of helping major companies in many industries formulate their business intelligence (BI) strategies.  While each company and industry is different, there are common components of an effective BI strategy.  Some are specific to BI and others are applicable for any [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

Business analytics - and business intelligence in general - are starting to be an increasingly important part of an enterprise business intelligence strategy. Further, analytics are starting to drive performance improvement and profit improvement through deeper cost analysis and other business process improvement and business performance management techniques. More and more, forward-looking professionals are embracing analytics. Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

The argument for jumping into the fray with big data goes something like this: there is an increase in the volume, velocity, and variety of data flowing around companies that is driven largely by social media and that is increasingly comprised of unstructured data – tweets, likes, etc. companies that can harvest and mine big [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

I read an interesting book last week called Immunity to Change, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey.  In it, the authors focus on individual and organizational factors that impede successful change, and they discuss a distinction between technical challenges and adaptive challenges.  A technical challenge may be difficult, but the skills required to meet [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

One of the more important trends in business intelligence over the past few years has been a need for speed: an ever-increasing volume of data means that existing BI systems must be able to process information faster and faster. On the business user side, an increased demand for BI puts pressure on BI teams to [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

In my last post about BI teams executing faster, Faster BI Execution: Four Practical Approaches to Improving BI System Quality, I looked at how quality impacts BI team performance, in this fourth post in the series I examine how slow BI systems can slow the performance of BI teams. Do users complain about how slow [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

In my previous post, “The Analytics Blind Spot for Business Users“, I examined business users’ perception of their BI capability, and how frequently they’re not getting the value out of their business data.  This week, as part of our ongoing series on How BI is Being Used in 2012, I want to take a closer [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

In my last post “Analytics In – Business Intelligence Out?” I discussed one of the key findings in our new research brief How Business Intelligence and Analytics are Being Used in 2012. In our research, we examined the terms that most resonated with business users when discussing the process of analyzing business information to support [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog

We recently conducted a survey of business users, IT executives and BI teams on their use of business data. We posed the following question to all business users: “Different terms are used to describe the analysis of business information to support better decision making and improve business results.  Which of these terms do you use? [...] Read More of this Article from the DecisionPath Blog