Archive for April, 2010
Gaining Support for Your BI Program
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I read a twitter feed not that long ago that postulated the only reason that BI programs need executive sponsorship is so consultants can have someone to sell to. Well, I disagree with that theory. What I found through personal experience is that without a strong executive sponsor I wasn’t able to gain traction, and [...]
The Five Disciplines of Business Intelligence
A number of years ago the Vice President here at Lancet, Randy Mattran wrote a whitepaper called “The Five Disciplines of Business Intelligence: How Lancet Software Development Views the Scope of Business Intelligence Implementation.” After a number of years in practice this model continues to direct our work and remains as applicable as it was [...]
Collaboration Site for Blog Series
In my first blog series post I mentioned that we would be creating a collaboration site as a method of improving the conversation on the 8 topics we will post. We will be using “Huddle” for the site. If you are interested in participating please email me at lmadsen@lancetsoftware.com with a subject line of “Collaboration [...]
What BI Is, What BI Isn’t and Do I Need BI?
What BI is… There are many definitions of Business Intelligence (BI); the easiest one is the right information to the right person at the right time in the right way. This is my least favorite because it implies a factor of luck, having to be in the right place at the right time. Of course, [...]
How To Get Started
While the term “Business Intelligence” has been around for over fifty years, I still get a lot of questions about what it is (what it isn’t) and how to start. After looking high and low for a good resource to refer to people I have realized that there are very few “how to” resources for [...]
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