This document discusses how business intelligence (BI) tools are becoming more widely adopted within organizations. It argues that BI adoption is following a similar pattern to previous technologies like email, starting with innovators and early adopters before expanding more broadly. The document provides recommendations for accelerating BI adoption, including gaining executive support, selecting easy-to-use tools, identifying early champions, demonstrating the value or "WIFM" to different groups, and providing training and visual dashboards to tell data stories. The goal is to help more users understand and take advantage of BI capabilities.

1. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF BI
Why BI is the New Email
User Adoption Success for Business Intelligence Programs

2. WHO IS IRONEDGE?
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3. IronEdgeGroup
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• Technologyconsulting and delivery
• Based inTexas
• Clients aroundthe U.S. and internationally
• Certified Microsoft AnalyticsPartner
• Over 12yearsin business
• Believe in democratizing BI
• Data DrivenCulture

4. AndrewMoore
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• AndrewMoore
• COO of IronEdgeGroup
• LSSGreen Belt
• Grown Multiple Multi-million Dollar IT
Practices
• ImplementedProcesses to DriveDown
Cost Using Data
• @andrewpmo –Twitter

5. Historical Perspective – Over the Last 150Years
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6. Historical Perspective – Exponential Accelerationwith High-Tech
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7. Historical Perspective – TechnologyAdoption within Organizations
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8. How TechnologyAdoption Happens
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9. How TechnologyAdoption Happens
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Cost
Usability
Cultural Shift
Adoption
Industry
Internal

10. How TechnologyAdoption Happens – Analytics InvestmentProjections
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11. Accelerating UserAdoption of BI – Understand CulturalObstacles
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• Not Educated on Use-Case: “Why BI
is Good”
• Data Security: “We Must Control
our Data”
• Fiefdoms: “That is IT’s Job”
• BI is Hard “That seems like a lot of
work”
• No Senior Level Buy-In “BI is Not
Important to Our Team”

12. HOW TO DO IT
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13. Find Champions – Executive Buy In
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Demonstrated Support
• Approved Budget
• Signed Contracts
• Approval of External
Resources
• Dotted Line Authority
• More Than One Exec
• Form a Committee

14. Select the Tools – The Bake Off
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Start Simple- Build Out the Matrix
• Cost
• Existing Tools/Contracts
• SaaS
• Usability
• Easy to Navigate
• Intuitive
• Integration
• Existing Data
• Processes
• Maintenance
• Support Costs
• General Overhead

15. Start theFire – Patient Zero: Moving from Innovators to Early Adopters
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16. Spreading the Fire – WIFM:How to Gain Support
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Time Savings Cost Savings Professional Growth/
More Money

17. Stoke the Fire – Education and Training
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• Processes – What do we
need to do for the best
data?
• Tools – How do we use the
tools?
• Data – What does the data
mean?

18. Stoke the Fire – BeVisual Tella Story: Dashboards are LikeJokes.
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