Business Intelligence and Reporting

The challenge

• Your business partners need an environment that facilitates flexible data delivery.
• Your data and BI strategy must continuously adapt to new business realities and data sources to stay relevant.
• The pressure to go directly to the solution design is high.  

Our advice

Insight

• A BI initiative is not static. It must be treated as a living platform to adhere to changing business goals and objectives. Only then will it support effective decision-making.
• Hear the voice of the business; that is the "B" in BI.
• Boys and their toys... The solution to better intelligence often lies not in the tool but the BI practices.
• Build a roadmap that starts with quick-wins to establish base support for your initiative.

Impact and results 

• Use the business goals and objectives to drive your BI initiatives.
• Focus first on what you already have in your company's business intelligence landscape before investing in a new tool that will only complicate things.
• Understand the core of what your users need by leveraging different approaches to pinpointing BI capabilities.
• Create a roadmap that details the iterative deliveries of your business intelligence initiative. Show both the short and long term.

The roadmap

Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:

Get started

Our concise executive brief shows you why you should create or refresh your business intelligence (BI) strategy. We'll show you our methodology and the ways we can help you in handling this.

• Build a Reporting and Analytics Strategy – Executive Brief (ppt)
• Build a Reporting and Analytics Strategy – Phases 1-3 (ppt)

Understand your business context and BI landscape

Understand critical business information and analyze your current business intelligence landscape.

• Build a Next-Generation BI with a Game-Changing BI Strategy – Phase 1: Understand the Business Context and BI Landscape (ppt)
• BI Strategy and Roadmap Template (doc)
• BI End-User Satisfaction Survey Framework (ppt)

Evaluate your current business intelligence practices

Assess your current maturity level and define the future state.

• Build a Next-Generation BI with a Game-Changing BI Strategy – Phase 2: Evaluate the Current BI Practice (ppt)
• BI Practice Assessment Tool – Example 1 (xls)
• BI Practice Assessment Tool – Example 2 (xls)

Create your BI roadmap

Create business intelligence focused initiatives for continuous improvement.

Build a Next-Generation BI with a Game-Changing BI Strategy – Phase 3: Create a BI Roadmap for Continuous Improvement (ppt)

BI Initiatives and Roadmap Tool (xls)

BI Strategy and Roadmap Executive Presentation Template (ppt)