April 2010

Business Intelligence - April 2010: Undercover, Strategy, and Options

Midmarket CFOs Lack Business Intelligence Tools to Do Their Jobs
by Carolyn April
IBM's recent survey of midmarket CFOs found that that the finance executives have more clout than ever, but don't have the necessary technology to enable them to make informed decisions for their companies.
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What you can learn as an “Undercover Boss?”
by Nari Kannan

The best new show on television has to do with Business and can teach a lot of IT people also excellent lessons on management.
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Does your company have a BI strategy?
by Marcus Borba

Boris Evelson recently wrote a short but nice post in Information Management, called Ten Strong Hints Your Enterprise May Not Have a BI Strategy, where he lists 10 hints why the companies don't have a BI strategy. You know that you don't have an enterprise BI strategy if...
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Operational BI: Sorting Out Your Options
by Wayne Eckerson

Operational business intelligence (BI) means many things to many people, but the nub is that it delivers information to decision makers in near real time, usually within seconds, minutes, or hours. The purpose is to empower front-line workers and managers with timely information so they can work proactively to improve performance. This sounds easy but it's hard to do.
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