If you have new information how will you run your organization differently? If you are not ready to make changes in your company, having new information will not contribute new value. You must be ready to break old habits. You must be ready to make new decisions based on the facts. For instance, ... [More]

This summer we had a BBQ with some visitors from Denmark. I knew the person growing up. She moved to Denmark (which is her family origins) about twenty years ago and has rarely been back to Canada since. My sister showed up with a drink she purchased on the way over. When asked what is was she said,... [More]

  Within the project management industry we often see people include “forecast status” as an element of project status reports along with current status and previous status. The expectation is Project Managers will include a status of what they think the status will be for the next reporting ... [More]

From inception through to deployment how efficient is your organization with its information about projects? As a project goes through its lifecycle a multitude of information is collected, stored and reported on. Often this grows organically as different groups involved in a project collect and sto... [More]

Do you need help getting your organization to stick to the facts? Is there lots of data in your organization but hesitation to share it? Be utilizing some Business Intelligence (BI) best practices these problems can be tackled. The power of BI is combining information from various data sources to... [More]

Almost all companies have Microsoft SQL Server somewhere in their organization. It may have arrived there as part of a vendor application, Microsoft SharePoint deployment or custom web application. SQL Server does much more than just store data – at no additional cost! Other database tools often hav... [More]

Business Intelligence solutions can loosely be divided into two components: getting the data right (by cleaning it and storing in a Data Mart) and presenting the data to the user (through dashboards and reports). Preparing the data requires lots of time and effort and time to ensure the data is c... [More]

Management of resources is a high priority on people’s list. Organizations have a lot of focus on financial resources. Financial resources are usually easy to report on because they are captured in detail in financial systems. However, time is an equally if not more important resource for organizati... [More]