Overcoming Common BI Program Mistakes
March 15, 2009 5:03 am BI Program, BI Strategy, IT StrategyThe business environment is a complex interplay of internal and external forces that must be supported by agile, efficient and compliant technology. Business intelligence technology is the most affected capability by under-performing IT infrastructure and stagnant, poor quality information.
In an attempt to provide a quick fix to an organizations business intelligence needs, common errors come into play that not only prevent the speedy solution, but can plague a more robust BI program implementation.
The most common BI Program mistakes largely involve incorrect assumptions:
By The Business
- They don’t have a problem with their data quality
- Managers need to be able to manipulate data in spreadsheets
- We need it all now – the Big Bang implementation
- We only need dashboards
By IT
- If we build a data warehouse, the business will readily embrace it
- Expecting to get a BI Solution from the approved standard enterprise application vendor
- Implementing BI is a one time project
- We are better off outsourcing our BI solution needs
Any one of these can cause headaches for both the business and IT for years to come…
To find out more about how the business and IT overcome these common mistakes, check out our latest BIG section BI Program Mistakes.
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