The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

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Elsevier, 2010. júl. 27. - 240 oldal

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data assets or data warehouse.

BI is not just a technology or methodology, it is a powerful new management approach that – when done right – can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver.

The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in this book. It shows how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization’s strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses. It provides a practical, process-oriented guide to achieve the full promise of BI; shows how world-class companies used BI to become leaders in their industries; helps senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can ensure a strong payoff from their BI investments; and identifies the most common mistakes organizations make in implementing BI.

The book also includes a helpful glossary of BI terms; a BI readiness assessment for your organization; and Web links and extensive references for more information.

  • A practical, process-oriented book that will help organizations realize the promise of BI
  • Written by Nancy and Steve Williams, veteran consultants and instructors with hands-on, "in the trenches" experience in government and corporate business intelligence applications
  • Will help senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can help ensure a strong payoff on BI investments
 

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Tartalomjegyzék

Chapter 1 The Business Value of Business Intelligence
1
Chapter 2 Identifying and Prioritizing Business IntelligenceDriven Opportunities for Your Organization
25
Prerequisites for Leveraging Business Intelligence to Improve Profits
44
Chapter 4 BusinessCentric Business Intelligence Development with the BI Pathway Method
65
Chapter 5 Leading and Managing a Business IntelligenceDriven Profit Improvement Program
96
Chapter 6 Business Intelligence in the Broader Information Technology Context
117
Chapter 7 Important Ways Business Intelligence Can Drive Profit Improvement
140
Chapter 8 Common Mistakes Companies Make on Business Intelligence Initiatives
170
Chapter 9 A View over the Horizon
183
Appendix A A Business Intelligence Glossary
200
Appendix B A Business Intelligence Readiness Assessment
202
Bibliography
206
Index
209
About The Authors
217
Copyright

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The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
Steve Williams,Nancy Williams
Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2007

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9. oldal - For top management tasks, information technology so far has been a producer of data rather than a producer of information— let alone a producer of new and different questions and new and different strategies. The people in Management Information Systems (MIS) and in Information Technology (IT) tend to blame this failure on what they call the "reactionary" executives of the "old school.‎
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A szerzőről (2010)

Steve Williams is the founder and CEO of DecisionPath Consulting. He specializes in helping clients formulate business-driven, technically-savvy strategies for leveraging business intelligence, analytics, and big data to improve profits. Steve blends general management experience and a general management MBA with nearly 30 years’ experience in the information systems field - the last fifteen of which have been spent in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics specialty. As a BI strategy consultant, Steve has had the privilege of working with successful companies in retail, distribution, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, government, and electric power. His clients have included: • ArcBest• Heinens Fine Foods• Louisville Gas and Electric• Navy Federal Credit Union• Northwestern Mutual Life• Partners Federal Credit Union• Pinnacle Foods Group• Principal Financial Group• Toronto Hydro Electric System• United Natural Foods• U.S. Social Security Administration• Watsco While the industries and companies are different, there are many common challenges when it comes to leveraging BI, analytics, and big data to enhance profitability. Steve understands these challenges, and he provides proven methods for meeting them. In addition to his consulting work, Steve is also an active contributor to the field of business intelligence, analytics, and big data. He and Nancy Williams wrote The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence in 2006, and Steve has continued to write for magazines such as Strategic Finance, Business Intelligence Journal, and MWorld (The Journal of the American Management Association). In addition to widely-sharing his thinking about BI, analytics, and big data, Steve has also served as a judge since 2001 for the annual TDWI Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Competition. Prior to founding DecisionPath, Steve worked for twenty years in several specialized consulting companies where he developed expertise in program management, systems integration, software engineering, and management accounting. He holds an MBA in General Management from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland.

Nancy Williams is Vice President of DecisionPath Consulting. With over 21 years of business and technical experience, she provides technical and strategic leadership on business intelligence as well as hands-on guidance for client engagements.

Bibliográfiai információk

CímThe Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies
SzerzőkSteve Williams, Nancy Williams
KiadóElsevier, 2010
ISBN0080467768, 9780080467764
Terjedelem240 oldal
  
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