Avoiding the Fatal Flaws of
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Bill Hostmann
James Richardson
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Avoiding the Fatal Flaws of
Business Intelligence
Bill Hostmann
James Richardson
Gartner Webinar
26 August 2009
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Large BI Software Investments Planned; Business
Value Realized Will Vary Widely Between Firms
Approximately what amount of funding is allocated to BI and information
infrastructure software purchases for your next fiscal year (2009)?
N = 289
45% of respondents said they will spend $1 million+ on BI & information infrastructure.
Source: "Spending and Sourcing Preferences for Business
Intelligence and Information Infrastructure, Fiscal 2009,"
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Flaw #1
Believing that
"If you build it, they will come"
Flaw #2
Managers Needing to
"Dance with the Numbers"
Flaw #3
"Data quality problem?
What data quality problem?"
Flaw #4
"Evaluate other BI platforms?
Why bother?"
Flaw #5
"It's perfect as it is!
Don't ever change ..."
Flaw #6
"Let's just outsource the
whole darn BI thing"
Flaw #7
"Just give me a dashboard.
NOW!"
Flaw #8
"Err …
X + Y = Z,
doesn't it?"
Flaw #9
"BI strategy?
No thanks, we'll just follow
our nose."
Recommendations
Bottom line, and ...
9Assess your BI value,
risks and failure points
... What you can do tomorrow
9Judge your situation against
case studies, BI framework,
cornerstones and fatal flaws
9The information infra9Strive for consolidation,
structure is the foundation
standardization and flexibility
9Evaluate your user segments,
9BI tools and applications
and define a portfolio that
are not "one size fits all"
addresses the range
9Establish a BI competency
9Without the right skills,
organization and processes, center to ensure BI is embedded
in business processes
BI cannot succeed
9BI exists to fuel
business strategy
9Align BI efforts with critical
business initiatives
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Bill Hostmann
James Richardson
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26 August 2009
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