Pressures demand a more efficient approach to BI:
- growing volume of source data / number of sources
- time window for decisions increasingly compressed
- increasing or changing demand for management information
Top strategies for delivering agile BI:
- enable business users to be more self-sufficient
- formalise and centralise approach to BI projects
- enable corporate IT to be more responsive
Process capabilities support efficient corporate IT:
- process for collecting and formulating end-user needs
- standard project plan in place for BI deployment
- formal post-project review process
Organisation capabilities enable business managers:
- IT and business analytics skills decentralised
- development of BI knowledge among business users
- BI project plans incorporate cultural change
Key best-in-class technology solutions:
- dashboards
- end-user query tool
- analytic applications
Best-in-class performance management capabilities:
- ability to measure and track total BI projects costs vs budgets
- ability to measure satisfaction of internal BI customers
To achieve best-in-class performance, companies must:
- empower decisions makers to engage with and manipulated management information directly if they are to be more responsive to changing business needs
- ensure that corporate IT increases its understanding of BI needs
- ensure that business managers are fully supported in their use of self-service BI
