The document discusses best practices for successful business intelligence (BI) implementation based on a case study. It identifies issues such as a lack of governance and mobile strategy. The future vision is to align analytics with business needs, leverage SAP tools, adopt reporting best practices, and establish a self-sufficient BI competency center. Key strategies discussed include constantly involving business users, helping users evolve from a reporting to analytic mindset, and establishing governance and standards through a BI competency center to reduce costs and improve satisfaction.
Business Analytics Competency centre: A strategic Differentiator BSGAfrica
Analytics industry trends and how they relate to the Insurance sector, highlighting the importance of recognising the Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) over the immediate revenue-generation potential of each customer. Steven Ing spoke about data as a strategic business asset, and the importance of recognising it as such. Additionally, he commented on the significance of developing an internal strategic team of experts, with a specific focus on facilitating and promoting the use of analytics to achieve business objectives across the enterprise.
Business Analytics Competency centre: A strategic Differentiator BSGAfrica
Analytics industry trends and how they relate to the Insurance sector, highlighting the importance of recognising the Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) over the immediate revenue-generation potential of each customer. Steven Ing spoke about data as a strategic business asset, and the importance of recognising it as such. Additionally, he commented on the significance of developing an internal strategic team of experts, with a specific focus on facilitating and promoting the use of analytics to achieve business objectives across the enterprise.
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
The Analytics COE positioning your business analytics program for successKiran Garimella
You should consider the following three aspects of your Business Analytics Program:
* The Business (not just data science, big data, and technology)
* Analytics as the DNA of the company (and not just a competency of an elite few)
* A Programmatic approach that sustainable for the life of the company (and not just a one-time project or initiative)
What role do classical statistics, Bayesian statistics, judgment under uncertainty, heuristics, biases, categorical data analysis, etc., play in such a program?
A COE (Center of Excellence) framework seeks to address these aspects and ensure the company can progress on all fronts.
Are you struggling with poor user adoption and ROI on your BI investment. These 10 lessons learnt comes from over a decade of experience working for BI teams certain to give you clear tips on how to counter these roadblocks.
Fast Fish Forum Presentation, 20 July 2016BSGAfrica
The Fast Fish Forum is an opportunity for challengers of convention and drivers of progress to come together for the benefit of South African business and society. The forum consists of purposeful, committed and open-minded people across industries, organisations and roles who collaborate and learn together; creating a critical mass that drives innovative change in our country.
At the second event, held at the BSG offices on 20 July 2016, we discussed two highly topical subjects:
1. The changing role of the business analyst
2. Change management in the context of innovative change - how to start and sustain a Lean / Agile / DevOps movement
To find out more and join the conversation follow us @FastFishForum and http://bit.ly/fastfishforum.
Building an Analytics CoE (Center of Excellence)Rahul Saxena
This deck is from a workshop I conducted at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on 20th July, 2013.
Agenda:
* What does the organization want to do with analytics? What is the role of the CoE that they envision?
* What is the organizational context? Current providers of analytics? Leadership support?
* What will the Analytics CoE need to be like (now and in the future, up to the planning horizon)?
* Where do we stand with analytics capabilities now, compared to what we need?
* How will we evolve the CoE? Set expectations, drive the evolution, establish the value.
Presentation I put together while at Business Objects where I spearheaded the development of the Business Intelligence Competency Center practice and service offering.
Preparing Your Own Strategic BI Vision and Roadmap: A Practical How-To GuideOAUGNJ
No single organizational initiative warrants preparation, planning and strategy more than the decision to invest in a Business Intelligence (BI) Program. Many organizations make BI one of their priorities because of the organization’s leadership direction. From a strategic perspective, information remains as one of the most valuable assets to an organization. True organizational responsiveness begins with an alignment of organizational strategy to a BI program. You will not want to miss this opportunity to understand the methodology needed to develop a BI Strategic Vision and Roadmap for your organization.
Creating your Center of Excellence (CoE) for data driven use casesFrank Vullers
NEED FOR CHANGE: Data is changing the world. We all know that. The real challenge will be to keep up with those changes by hiring the right team to help you take on the data that is already in your organization.
STAFF FOR SUCCES: Make sure you have an executive sponsor that has a vision for how the organization can become data-driven; hire experienced team members to lead the data engineering, and architecture teams; and adopt agile methodologies to allow for quick experimentation and quick failures.
SKILL UP: In a recent survey focused on Spark, over 60 percent indicated that the skills/training gap was their biggest organizational challenges with Spark, but 65% of respondents indicated that they either did not know or had no future plans for training. Cloudera University to get them ramped up quickly. Cloudera University helps organizations tackle the skill gaps issue they encounter when growing their teams and helps them stay up to date on the latest supported technologies.
Looking to gain a sustainable competitive advantage? Business Intelligence (BI) products provide companies with the tools they need to gain next-level insight on consumer and industry trends, and have the unlimited potential in improving functions and streamlining communications between departments. While BI solutions were once only available to large companies with big IT budgets, emerging technologies have provided options for small-mid sized organizations in recent years. So, how can you ensure that you choose a BI solution that is right for you, and what are the steps towards proper implementation?
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
The Analytics COE positioning your business analytics program for successKiran Garimella
You should consider the following three aspects of your Business Analytics Program:
* The Business (not just data science, big data, and technology)
* Analytics as the DNA of the company (and not just a competency of an elite few)
* A Programmatic approach that sustainable for the life of the company (and not just a one-time project or initiative)
What role do classical statistics, Bayesian statistics, judgment under uncertainty, heuristics, biases, categorical data analysis, etc., play in such a program?
A COE (Center of Excellence) framework seeks to address these aspects and ensure the company can progress on all fronts.
Are you struggling with poor user adoption and ROI on your BI investment. These 10 lessons learnt comes from over a decade of experience working for BI teams certain to give you clear tips on how to counter these roadblocks.
Fast Fish Forum Presentation, 20 July 2016BSGAfrica
The Fast Fish Forum is an opportunity for challengers of convention and drivers of progress to come together for the benefit of South African business and society. The forum consists of purposeful, committed and open-minded people across industries, organisations and roles who collaborate and learn together; creating a critical mass that drives innovative change in our country.
At the second event, held at the BSG offices on 20 July 2016, we discussed two highly topical subjects:
1. The changing role of the business analyst
2. Change management in the context of innovative change - how to start and sustain a Lean / Agile / DevOps movement
To find out more and join the conversation follow us @FastFishForum and http://bit.ly/fastfishforum.
Building an Analytics CoE (Center of Excellence)Rahul Saxena
This deck is from a workshop I conducted at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on 20th July, 2013.
Agenda:
* What does the organization want to do with analytics? What is the role of the CoE that they envision?
* What is the organizational context? Current providers of analytics? Leadership support?
* What will the Analytics CoE need to be like (now and in the future, up to the planning horizon)?
* Where do we stand with analytics capabilities now, compared to what we need?
* How will we evolve the CoE? Set expectations, drive the evolution, establish the value.
Presentation I put together while at Business Objects where I spearheaded the development of the Business Intelligence Competency Center practice and service offering.
Preparing Your Own Strategic BI Vision and Roadmap: A Practical How-To GuideOAUGNJ
No single organizational initiative warrants preparation, planning and strategy more than the decision to invest in a Business Intelligence (BI) Program. Many organizations make BI one of their priorities because of the organization’s leadership direction. From a strategic perspective, information remains as one of the most valuable assets to an organization. True organizational responsiveness begins with an alignment of organizational strategy to a BI program. You will not want to miss this opportunity to understand the methodology needed to develop a BI Strategic Vision and Roadmap for your organization.
Creating your Center of Excellence (CoE) for data driven use casesFrank Vullers
NEED FOR CHANGE: Data is changing the world. We all know that. The real challenge will be to keep up with those changes by hiring the right team to help you take on the data that is already in your organization.
STAFF FOR SUCCES: Make sure you have an executive sponsor that has a vision for how the organization can become data-driven; hire experienced team members to lead the data engineering, and architecture teams; and adopt agile methodologies to allow for quick experimentation and quick failures.
SKILL UP: In a recent survey focused on Spark, over 60 percent indicated that the skills/training gap was their biggest organizational challenges with Spark, but 65% of respondents indicated that they either did not know or had no future plans for training. Cloudera University to get them ramped up quickly. Cloudera University helps organizations tackle the skill gaps issue they encounter when growing their teams and helps them stay up to date on the latest supported technologies.
Looking to gain a sustainable competitive advantage? Business Intelligence (BI) products provide companies with the tools they need to gain next-level insight on consumer and industry trends, and have the unlimited potential in improving functions and streamlining communications between departments. While BI solutions were once only available to large companies with big IT budgets, emerging technologies have provided options for small-mid sized organizations in recent years. So, how can you ensure that you choose a BI solution that is right for you, and what are the steps towards proper implementation?
iProjectSolutions - start your project digital document workflowKevin Rowe
Don't just manage part of your project, iProjectSolutions has developed hardware, software and technology partners to create a real world digital document workflow solution. Transitioning Thru Technology
How BI Competency Centers Drive Enhanced Reporting and AnalyticsCognizant
With profuse, disparate data a growing problem for companies, creating a standardized business intelligence competency center (BICC) is a great solution and major strategic asset. We provide a blueprint for planning, executing and managing a BICC, including key resources and potential pitfalls.
As we take the journey into the unknown of Document Management I hope that this helps. for more information go to http://www.mlburgessconsulting.com.au
Business Intelligence Analysis - The key to organisational and business successcssa
Cavin Griffiths, Executive Business Intelligence at Telkom discusses important of Business Intelligence in large organisations and the value add over time as more people buy into the philosophy.
A strategic view of document and digital object managementDerek Keats
A strategic view of document and digital object management for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This was a presentation given to senior managers who have an interest in enterprise digital asset management at Wits.
Moving From Scorecards To Strategic ManagementWynyard Group
In their recent book “Strategy Maps”, Robert Kaplan and David Norton stated that “73 percent of companies achieving outstanding performance clearly communicate their strategy and strategic measures, whereas only 28 percent of the underperformers take such an action.”
What is becoming more evident is that there far more to performance management than just technology or implementing scorecards. This session will take you through the various steps you can take to transform your organisation and achieve outstanding performance. This session will show how you can implement a performance management system that is aligned to your organisation’s strategic direction
• Why implementing scorecards is not “strategic management”
• What are the steps involved in moving from a scorecard application to an enterprise strategic performance management system.
• Help take your performance management system to the next level
We all know that End User Adoption is an important area of focus in your SharePoint project. In this session we will take a closer look at the End User Adoption work stream and the associated roles, responsibilities, and tasks for the project plan. We will also review case studies to demonstrate how these differ based on the size of the project and the specific needs of the organization. You’ll walk away from this session with a tactical formula you can follow to create your end user adoption strategy and templates to support the process.
Learn how to define success in business intelligence, the 12 keys to success in BI and an overview of the market-leading business intelligence tools. View the video recording and download this deck: http://www.senturus.com/resources/keys-to-success-in-business-intelligence/.
BI tools covered include: Microsoft, Cognos, Business Objects and Oracle.
Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.
The Big Trends in Business Intelligence Competency CentersSAP Analytics
Slides by SAP Evangelist Timo Elliott on trends in business intelligence (BI) competency centers, presented at SAPinsider #BI2016 and #HANA2016 in Las Vegas.
This presentation was made at SAS Forum India 2014 by Mr. Manoj Shrivastava, Director - IT, MTS India. In this presentation, he talks about the various learnings derived from his experiences with BI and campaign management implementations.
Delivering a Strategic and Delightful User ExperienceWilliam Newman
SAP’s UX strategy was unveiled nearly two years ago. How are customers moving forward with the embracing this strategy, making it their own, and demonstrating results? Based on hands-on planning with business and IT teams, learn the key drivers and best practice approaches to use when planning your UX strategy program. Case studies and examples of early adopters, along with pitfalls to avoid and key points to consider will prepare your team and position for success in your UX program. Testimonials and examples from Shell, Valero, Unilever and others
Go Live is Just the Start - Managing AX Improvement Projects | Carlo DiPucchio BDO IT Solutions
Improvement projects often don’t get the same level of attention as initial implementations. Learn how to manage the roll-out of upgrades, additional functionality, process improvements and ISV solutions.
Carlo DiPucchio
BDO Canada LLP
BDO Connections 2016 | Breakout Session
Go Live is Just the Start - Managing AX Improvement Projects | Carlo DiPucchioKatie Elliott
Improvement projects often don’t get the same level of attention as initial implementations. Learn how to manage the roll-out of upgrades, additional functionality, process improvements and ISV solutions.
Destination Digital: Tracking Progress to Continue First Class PerformanceNGA Human Resources
Your Digital HR journey doesn't stop once you have gone live. The continuous innovations that keep digital HR processes efficient, and your HR team high performing, need to be integrated and optimized to ensure you continue to reach your performance objectives.
In this webinar we talk you through the maintenance of your new HR platform, vital to ensure that it remains optimized in line with the quarterly SuccessFactors updates.
In addition, we reveal to you the value of the business intelligence insights that Digital HR gathers, analyzes and reports on as part of the digital data processes.
These real-time and retrospective insights make it easy for you to make smart strategic decisions and meet KPIs.
Siebel Analytics in IBM: Building a Sense & Respond Solutionpoore120
Siebel Analytics in IBM:Building a Sense and Respond Solution. Presented at 1) Siebel User Week 2004 San Diego, and 2) Siebel User Week 2005 Barcelona.