Donuts, Content Management and Information Governance
I was on vacation for two weeks, which was awesome, and my girls mainly wanted to do two things: Eat great homemade food (Beehive Cake, a Scandinavian classic, was on the list of 10 recipes) Do crafts...
View ArticleChanging The IT Culture For Self-Service BI Success
IT culture has largely been established around the high demands of enterprise reporting and corporate dashboards. These demands have inspired IT to set up strict rules for governance, policies, and...
View ArticleWhen Good Is Good Enough: Guiding Business Users On BI Practices
In Part One of this blog series, I talked about changing your IT culture to better support self-service BI and data discovery. Absolutely essential. However, your work is not done! Self-service BI and...
View ArticleWe, Not Me: The Impact Of Siloed BI Thinking
The final blog in my 3-part series, this post addresses convincing the various lines of business and departments that the needs of the “we” outweigh the needs of “me.” Example 1 A consumer packaged...
View ArticleTurn Data Into A Competitive Advantage
Digital disruption affects different companies in different ways. The so-called “digital natives” were able to start with a blank sheet of paper and build flexible, innovative, platform-based business...
View ArticleThe Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors – Gear Up With Self-Service BI
The night IS dark and full of terrors: Dark because no one quite articulates what they mean by self-service BI. Unless someone does the work to clarify and shine a light on self-service BI, the night...
View ArticleUnburnt: Data Strategies To Support Self-Service BI
Dude. You need a data strategy for self-service BI. The unburnt is one who can stand in the fire and some out unscathed—this will not happen without a new, flexible, scalable data strategy. This...
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