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A Successful Approach to Business Intelligence (BI) is Difficult!

Submitted by Hans Lodder on Tue, 09/12/2008 - 11:47

BI is a multidisciplinary art. In a recent article Forrester presents a BI process overview. Central to this report is a drawing that relates everything to everything, demonstrating the BI process complexity. You should study it carefully!

Project Portfolio Management Services: Consultancy, Training, Coaching & Project Development

We can help you implement Project Portfolio Management in your specific situation.

Project Portfolio Management Prerequisites

In order to be successful with Project Portfolio Management a number of prerequisites must be met:

  • The will to change;
  • A pathfinder project;
  • Celebration of successes;
  • Proper selection, training and coaching of employees;
  • Time to manage Project Portfolio Management as an asset.

What Is Project Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management is making sure that you optimize the revenue potential while keeping as low as possible on resource usage.

Project Portfolio Management makes it possible to use your IT as an assessment. It facilitates:

  • Planning;
  • Controlling;
  • Managing;
  • Reporting.

Checking and Enhancing Information and Data Quality

Over time business changes. This implies that business processes change, the people as well as the systems. Also, a business is multi-disciplinary, which implies that there are many viewpoints for the same aspect.

This leads slowly to what is called data pollution. Can we solve data pollution? And how?

Checklist When To Execute an Assessment

It is time to execute an assessment if one or more of the following points check:

  • The project planning has changed once more, and you ask yourself why did I ever started it:
    • Again the requirements were to optimistic, wrong or lacking;
    • You seemed to have passed the point of no return (again).
    • Important issues have become second place, and unimportant issues have become crucial for success
    • Nobody seems to know anymore where it was all about in the first place.
    • Time is running out.

Extracting Requirements From Existing Data Sources With a Parser

Extracting requirements from existing data sources has 3 aspects:

  • The methodology;
  • The tools;
  • The people.

Migration of Requirements Versus Greenfield

Every now and then a business manager has to ask himself whether to continue with his current processes, or start allover again. So it is appropriate to provide some information on this subject.

Advantages and Disadvantages Of Greenfield and Migration Strategies

Viable questions with this regard are issues like:

  • What are we going to do with our current legacy infrastructure?
  • What are we going to do with are current legacy technology?
  • And what are going to do with our current employees?

A Business Process Management Implementation: What Now?

Submitted by Hans Lodder on Thu, 14/08/2008 - 10:13

Business Process Management (BPM) has many advantages. But what is it exactly, and how do you implement it. Many people asked me this question recently, so let me present you some thoughts on this subject.

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