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…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on March 30, 2009 at 7:00am —
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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…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on March 30, 2009 at 1:35am —
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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…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on March 23, 2009 at 6:04am —
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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…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on March 16, 2009 at 6:30am —
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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…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on March 16, 2009 at 6:30am —
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References
1. Article: 'Value of BI in a weak economy' from http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?id=9231
2. LogiXML Whitepaper: 'BI in Recession: How to Gain Market Share' from http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/9452
Value of BI in times of Recession
On Monday December 1, 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the economy has been in retreat for a year, namely since December 2007, when mass selling on Wall Street pushed the S&P 500 index down by almos…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on January 27, 2009 at 12:58am —
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References:
1. "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act
2. 'Intro to Compliance - Sarbanels Oxley & your EDW' from http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/linstedt/archives/2009/01/post.php
3. 'Gauging your BI Maturity for SOX Compliance' from http://www.technologyexecutivesclub.com/Articles/businessintelligence/bimaturity.php
Enabling Corporate Governance using BI
In this article, we shall explore the nature and notion of compliance - specifically Sarba…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on January 27, 2009 at 12:53am —
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Agile Business Intelligence (BI):
by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian
The aim of any Business Intelligence (BI) initiative is to help an organization to review its business, its competition and its external environment from time to time and take more smarter and faster decisions not only for survival and sustenance but also to stay one step ahead of its competition. Or in other words, BI serves to keep an organization agile and vigilant at the same time.
There is a fundamental differ…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on January 23, 2009 at 3:34am —
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How are low-cost airlines faring in India today? "Low-cost" airlines? Doesn't that sound like an oxymoron? Yes it is, indeed. Low cost airlines are practically non-existent nowadays. It's been five years since the launch of so-called low cost airlines but today it is literally bleeding to death. Darwinism has propelled the airlines to its next stage in evolution. Value carrier is the in-thing now.
Go-Air, which was till recently, a low-cost carrier offering fares in the range of Rs 0-99, remin…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on November 7, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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The title at first glance might beg the question "What does Alexander have to do with Business Intelligence?", which is quite a natural reaction. But what is unnatural and invisible to many is the perspicacity that one can derive from the wisdom of Alexander to solve problems, not necessarily problems in BI implementation alone, but any problem for that matter.
The discussion here, though, shall be focused on the application of leadership process of Alexander to successful management of Busines…
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Added by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on November 7, 2008 at 3:49am —
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