Stellar’s Seven Essentials: Governance
You can’t justify spending on analytics with a business case that merely says: “The programme will enhance our decision-making by providing more insight from our data.”
Insight-Based Decision Making versus “just doing reporting”
Data and Analytics solutions enable organisations to discover opportunities for competitive advantage, but too often the most valuable opportunities are not followed up.
Understand this: Complex is easy and simple is hard
It’s a truism that complex is easy and simple is hard. It’s something I see all the time in the BI world where explanations often cross between business and tech audiences.
New Zealand achievements in data and analytics
Lead Consultant Craig Larmer is getting a bit of a reputation for being unashamedly biased when it comes to pointing out New Zealand tech successes.
No company can succeed by trying to be all things to all people
New technologies and models can impact the value of existing products and services, so if your organisation is not operationally aligned it can be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to rise to the challenge of digital disruption.
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
I love this quote from Peter Drucker. It describes perfectly the paradox that challenges most organisations – that of aligning action with strategic intent.
Stellar’s Seven Essentials: Engagement Model
Nothing will kill a BI project more quickly than poor communication. The Engagement Model is the mechanism to coordinate communication and contributions from everyone in the programme.
Stellar’s Seven Essentials: Delivery Model
A broken Delivery Model is usually the most obvious symptom of troubled BI projects. Failure of the Delivery Model can lead to break-through failure of other essentials such as Engagement and Governance.
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