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Decision Automation in BI - Selecting Decisions to Automate
Barring a directive from on-high, i.e. the Executive Floor, so to speak, it can be difficult deciding which new projects, or old ones for that matter, will benefit from automation of business decision… more →
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Decision Automation in BI - Selecting Decisions to Automate
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Cyril Brookes wrote 2 years ago: Barring a directive from on-high, i.e. the Executive Floor, so to speak, it can be difficult decidin … more →
Building Automated Decision Making into BI System Design - A Methodology Overview
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Cyril Brookes wrote 2 years ago: Automated decision making for business is about flavor of the month. Most emphasis has been on autom … more →
DIY BI Design Best Practice
Cyril Brookes wrote 2 years ago: Backing up my conviction that DIY business intelligence is going mainstream, I’ve put together a set … more →
Collaborative BI Implies a Personalized Grapevine – but, make it Smart Alerting or its all Blah!
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Cyril Brookes wrote 2 years ago: Effective collaboration depends on the dynamic creation of groups that can exchange and share intell … more →
Specifying Boardroom BI: Helping Directors Find Problems for Executives to Solve?
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: I believe there’s a lack of focus on Boardroom BI which reduces corporate performance. In my experi … more →
Boardroom BI – It’s Different from Executives’ Corporate Performance Reporting
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: A colleague has asked me to comment on the issues in building business intelligence systems to suppo … more →
Managing Cultural Barriers to Effective Collaboration; Enabling Action Oriented BI for CRM and Competitive Intelligence
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: In previous blog posts I’ve opined on the cultural barriers impeding knowledge sharing and limiting … more →
BI for CRM – Much hyped as easy, but hard to build effectively
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: We all know that every enterprise needs automated CRM, and BI is a big part of that. All the IT gur … more →
Drilldown specification in BI– it's harder than the demo makes out
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: We’ve all sat through those glitzy demonstrations of canned detailed reporting – solving hypothetica … more →
BI implies passivity – we need action oriented reporting, bring back KM?
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: BI used to be KM in the management consultant marketing speak. Let’s bring back KM – BI is becoming … more →
Stafford Beer’s "Attenuation" concept – how to implement it in BI reporting
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: My July 7 post on Stafford Beer’s legacy for BI professionals gave an overview as to how I implement … more →
Knowledge poverty in information abundance – Stafford Beer’s insight
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: In this age of BI excess of development capability and resource overload the lessons taught by our n … more →
Bottom-up BI Requirements Analysis
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: Bottom-up specification involves understanding and documenting the existing BI environment and then … more →
A Way Forward for Effective BI Requirements Specification
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Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: There is a way out of the mess we’re in because of poor BI Requirements definition. The “waterfall” … more →
Something funny happened to BI Requirements Definition. It went away!
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: Information reporting all started with MIS in the 60s; Management Information Systems were going to … more →
BI Prototyping: Developers laughing? SOX auditors weeping? Users experimenting? Documentation lacking?
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: Whatever happened to determining system requirements specifications before you build? Rigor in re … more →
No Surprises in my BI reporting system! Red Flag #3 on why BI reports fail
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: Just like corporate customers, executive users of BI systems ought to be delighted, at least occasio … more →
Unimaginative Specification - Red Flag #1 on why BI reports fail
Cyril Brookes wrote 3 years ago: Is your BI Reporting system specification simply a set of KPIs drawn from a standard set of corporat … more →
