I read a really good article in Information Management this week on BI entitled “The Other BI.” The idea in the article is that “business involvement” is the “other BI” that is critical to ensuring success of your business intelligence deployment based on a data warehouse. The recommendations in the article include: IT needs to [...]
Recently, I wrote about treating a data process as the business process that it truly is. The premise was that we must look at data management processes in a more structured way. By spotting repeatable patterns and looking for opportunities to automate some of the mechanical aspects of the process, we can create opportunities to [...]
Businesses have long sought to optimize core business processes to ensure maximum business performance. IT departments have supported the cause by building systems to automate many of the mechanical aspects of these processes ensuring repeatable, efficient execution of operations. These same IT departments, however, have continued to use traditional labor-intensive methods of building many of [...]
I remember when I started my career in tech, many of my customers were moving away from mainframes to distributed computing for those applications that required more human involvement. As a percentage, traditional mainframe programs shrunk and the skills necessary to maintain them became scarce. I vividly recall a conversation with my customer at the [...]
As I sit and watch the unbelievable talent during the World Series (even though my beloved Tampa Bay Rays didn’t make it to the fall classic), I can’t help but think of what it means to compete at that level. Watching the flaming MPH indicator every time one of these pitchers throws above 95MPH (and [...]
