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]

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]

 I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius (680-740) I am often asked by customers about what industry metrics should be used for their dashboards and scorecards. The thought being that implementing best in class metrics will make them a best in class organiza... [More]

On Tuesday March 2nd I will be in the Microsoft booth talking about Business Intelligence at The Art of Marketing conference. What does Business Intelligence have to do with Marketing? All kinds of things. With Business Intelligence you can: Use statistical techniques to segment your customers ... [More]

Have you ever been in the situation where you needed to know something about a population and don’t have the budget to measure it for everyone? By sampling a population and applying an Excel function you can obtain an approximation for the overall population. This concept is best illustrated through... [More]