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by Kesavan,H.

When an organization kick-starts a Business Intelligence (BI) initiative, it should start TOP-DOWN by identifying a business sponsor first. This business sponsor is none other than the CEO himself. The drive for such an initiative has to come from the top. An IT head such as a CIO sponsoring the initiative may not take it very far and most often the initiative might end up getting abandoned or the BI system, even if implemented, might not find any users.

The CEO wields the… Continue

by Kesavan, H.

We have all heard of time value of money. What could this "time value of data" mean?

All organizations these days are sitting on mountains of data and struggling to make sense of this data avalanche. In their desire to stay competitive, these organizations tend to store as much data as they can, for a 'rainy' day as they say, for they do not know which data would be useful when.

Notwithstanding this sad state of affairs in organizations, they also fail to realize that ev… Continue

by Kesavan, H.

"MECE" stands for "Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive". I am sure you must have guessed by now where that term comes from. If you said "Mckinsey", bingo! You can pat yourself on your back.

MECE is an approach that Mckinsey consultants religiously follow to find professional solutions to all their client problems. Given a problem statement, MECE addresses the problem by listing at the top level all issues making up that problem. Once the list is prepared, one ensu… Continue

by Kesavan,H.

The significance of Business Intelligence (BI) has gained lot of currency over the last few years and lots of companies have jumped onto the BI bandwagon in the hope of finding the proverbial needle - namely, "actionable intelligence" - in the haystack of "data".

With a deluge of data confronting the companies nowadays, people at all levels of an enterprise have started realizing that implementing a BI system is more a necessity than a luxury. But despite the increased ado… Continue

by Kesavan,H

As consultants, we are expected to provide solutions to problems by application of (i)methodical approach to business analysis (ii)experience gained earlier from the same industry and (iii) the knowledge of industry best practices documented across the enterprise. It is a given that big Consulting companies recruit some of the best talent available around them and they also have a rich knowledge base that can be harvested for any new projects. Despite these advantages severa… Continue