What’s Wrong with Today’s Planning and Budgeting
People have been complaining about the budgeting and planning processes in their organizations for decades. If you’re old enough, you…
Technology Change Reaps Rewards
How Salesforce.com Blazed a New TrailTechnology enables change, and change drives success. We measure success in terms of change: increases,…
Business Planning Benchmark Shows No Improvement in How Companies Plan and Budget
Organizations engage in a range of forward-looking activities. Sales organizations have pipelines to forecast sales. Manufacturing organizations set and reset…
BI Advice for Midsize Organizations: Keep It Simple
The incessant talk these days about Big Data in the context of business intelligence is understandable. The unprecedented growth and…
Considerations for New End User Business Intelligence Implementations
One of the newest trends in the BI world is “End User/Self Service BI”. One of the newest trends in…
Big Data Vs. Traditional Business Intelligence
by Srini Vinnakota by Srini VinnakotaWhile some still consider Big Data a tool confined to behemoths like Google and Amazon, an ever-increasing…
The Strategy of Big Data
Facebook was once again front and center in the news as its number of worldwide users eclipsed one billion! When Facebook…
The Data Discovery: Investing in Customer Insight
In many of our engagements with new clients, the old Donald Rumsfeld phrase of ‘We don’t know what we don’t…
Big Data For Big Weather
Courtesy of hint.fm/wind Courtesy of hint.fm/windThe east coast is slowly recovering from the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy and we…
Analytics is Sexy: Let’s Make It Work!
I wrote earlier about this huge gap between talking about analytics and being able to actually make a large impact…
