If you’re going to embark on a business intelligence initiative, you ought to have these five items in place before you do. More copy to go here explaining the finer points of Implementing Business Intelligence.
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Here’s a brief podcast (about three minutes) on my definition of business intelligence.
Back in May of last year, I wrote the following post, which in essence said “There’s a lot of talk about dashboards, but I’ve encountered very few myself.” Well, while attending the Aptify Users Conference a few weeks ago, one of the speakers was demonstrating the dashboards available in the Aptify product (which are, quite
I’ll be speaking in Chicago next Thursday, October 2, for the Association Forum of Chicagoland. My presentation will be on “Data Mining and Business Intelligence.” You can get all the details here.
This is the last of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I’m going to keep this at a high level. The mission of the National Defense
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This is the third of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I’m going to keep this at a high level. The Professional Golfers Association includes a
This is the second of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I’m going to keep this at a high level. When Steve Doran arrived at NACUBO,
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This is the first of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I’m going to keep this at a high level. The Texas Medical Association started using
I was sitting in a consulting workshop a few weeks ago being led by Alan Weiss. Alan was making the point that the most valuable consulting is the kind that focuses on transformational behavior, rather than transactional behavior. That is, there is more value in helping an organization move to a higher level of performance
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My favorite quote from Peter Drucker comes from The Effective Executive (written over 40 years ago!!). On page 5, Drucker writes: “The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.” Quite simply, what Drucker was saying is that any information that you have that doesn’t cause you to change how you behave