Here is a round-up of some interesting (to me) blog entries:
BI changes in 2011 – but to what?
The simple answer is that it’s about providing real-time business intelligence to people to support their decisions, not instead of, but in addition to traditional BI analysis of past success or trends. A more complex answer is that this is a completely new environment in every sense of the word mea...
Best-in-class BI – Display, Insight and Action
I was talking to a colleague about the benefits that an operational BI solution provides and we came to the conclusion there are three levels of increasing value: Displaying relevant, timely, accurate data based on the person’s role and responsibility within the context of a business process or valu...
Designing Your BI Competency Center
In which Jill talks about designing a competency center. (That’s right, we said “designing.”) In my vast experience as a BI and data integration consultant… (Okay now is when you think to yourself, “Wait, she looks pretty young, so how vast is it really? I mean, she can’t be more than 32 or 33…”) An...
Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Shared Value
Anti-business sentiment may have increased in the U.S. with the Enron scandal in 2001. It further increased as income inequality started to get news coverage and reached a high degree of notice with the economic crisis of 2008. In response to this trend first social entrepreneurship emerged as a top...
BI Licensing &Lawsuits: A Sure Sign of Failure
Software licensing is never an easy topic, for either the buyer or the seller. For buyers, its so much easier to discuss features and capabilities and whether or not the product is a good fit. For the seller, its so much easier to highlight why their company and product is the best. So you do your p...
“Creating Shared Value”…
… is the title of the leading article in Harvard Business Review for January/February 2011. Given the article is jointly authored by Michael Porter, perhaps the world’s best known business school professor, it is likely to be very influential. It is an exceptional article about the need for capita...
All Work is Networked
Networks support every level of situational complexity The essential nature of work is humans interacting with other humans - the people behind the computer, the processes, and the machines. There is a big difference between the way real people work and the mechanistic approach of the production lin...
‘Stretch goals’ tend to stretch all the way into fraud
Goal setting works. Give your employees some concrete goals and they will work harder to reach them than when you just tell them “do the best you can”. There are ample studies confirming that relation...
Big Themes in BI for 2011
There is nothing like a fresh snowfall and a new year to reflect on the hot topics in BI for 2011. Here is my list of the five most important trends for the year ahead. 1. Advanced visualization a...
Is Your Consultant Enriching Your Judgment — or Retarding it?
by Brook Manville (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength. As their research prog...
The Strategic Reader - Dec 2010
Here is a quick summary of some interesting articles on strategy in late 2010: Ten Tech-Enabled Business Trends to Watch: McKinsey Quarterly . McKinsey has highlighted an earlier list of trends to w...
Seven counterintuitive truths for managers [Blog]
How do you get customers to send bouquets to staff for great service (literally) yet cut costs at the same time? By discarding (almost) everything you think you know about management and doing the opp...
Proposed Themes For BI Trends 2011
Business Intelligence remains a top priority for companies. A successful BI has a positive impact on business performance, helping companies make better decisions at every level of the business from c...
The Biggest Mistake On Sales Capacity Planning Models
I enjoy building capacity planning models. Yeah- I am weird like that. LOL. As you may know, we use capacity models to predict demand, predict productivity, predict costs and predict outputs (e.g. sal...
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Published: November 22, 2010 Author: Robert Simons Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor R...
Overall Marketing Effectiveness (OME)
I was discussing marketing metrics with our CTO last week as we seek to define new performance measures or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that can help marketing professionals understand and improv...
The Job of an Innovation System in Your Business
I’ve written a great deal about idea and innovation management. But at the end of the day what is the job of an idea and innovation management system in your business? Let’s try to get clear on this...
Do Your Team a Favor: Stop Acting Like IT
(Caution: This blog may contain ideas that are hazardous to your career.) I’ve argued in previous blogs that business intelligence (BI) professionals must think more like business people and less li...
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
Published: October 6, 2010 Authors: John Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Id...
Bridging Process Modeling and IT Solutions Design at adidas
Eduardo Gonzalez of the adidas Group talked about how they are implementing BPM within their organization, particularly the transition from business process models to designing a solution, which ties ...
Seven Characteristics of Key Performance Indicators - KPIs
"Performance measurement is failing organizations all around the world," says author David Parmenter in his new book " Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs " (2010, John Wiley & Sons Inc.) The reasons include a ...
Using Cynefin
I was on YouTube earlier today checking out on our new video on the Cynefin framework which is doing well in terms of hits although its not anywhere near the Childrens' Party story yet! I hadn't realised that there is other material up there, Three n...
Polymaths see the bigger picture
One of my big themes these days is to look at the huge opportunities available to businesses that transform their operations, cost base or market reach through their use of the cloud. So I’m looking forward to meeting up this week with my Enterprise I...
Value Networks Monitor Hidden Value
Standards and XBRL for Intangible Asset Management Value network modeling and analytics are in the forefront of non-financial business reporting. The Value Networks data model is fully XBRL enabled and it is the only scalable business modeling methodo...
Mindmap Retail Intelligence Presentation
This is the mindmap that I used for the Retail Intelligence presentation that I gave at the microstrategy event. It mentions the trends in BI and Retail and how they come together. If you are interested in receiving the slides drop me an e-mail. ...
From Data Warehousing to Performance Management
Next year marks the 15th anniversary of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), an association of data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) professionals that has grown nearly as fast as the industry it serves, which now tops $9 billion according...
Have we really understood what Business Intelligence means?
Everyone wants ‘business intelligence’ (BI) but have we failed to grasp the gap between what the business managers want and what conventional BI reporting delivers? I was ‘socialising’ this point with a former colleague whose views are always interest...
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Thanks for including a link to The Sales Operations Blog.. what an interesting list overall!
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